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Monday, December 10, 2018

Tracking Sea Currents Alongside Google Maps


Do y'all desire to know where your message inwards a bottle volition plow upward or runway downwardly the path of local floating pollution? Adrift is a Google Map that tin terminate demo y'all how all kinds of objects drift on body of body of water currents.

The map uses information from observed tracks revealed past times buoys inwards the Global Drifter Program too from other scientific inquiry into body of body of water currents to predict where an object(s) volition goal up. Just house your prophylactic duck anywhere on the map (in the body of body of water obviously) too the map volition animate where your duck is probable to goal up.

Despite the whimsical utilisation of the prophylactic duck this map has a real serious purpose. Plastic litter is i of the biggest problems inwards the oceans too the map provides a dandy visualization of how this litter tin terminate spread through the oceans too impairment sea-life.