This project will deploy uncrewed surface vehicles (USV), Saildrones, into hurricane environments to continuously collect high-quality near-surface atmosphere and upper ocean measurements. The real time data from Saildrones will provide critical data to better understand the air-sea transition zone physics and how that may affect hurricane intensity.
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