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WAVE DATA & SHIP DESIGN data gap ready to be drastically reduced through Bristlemouth, “By applying the ? rst open ocean connectivity standard. A collaboration be- accurate weather tween Sofar and strategic partners in the public and private sector, Bristlemouth delivers plug-and-play hardware inter- forecasts faces to simplify connectivity between devices and is expect- predicting the ed to accelerate the development of scalable ocean sensing wave height systems and applications.

Boosting the scope of wave monitoring could, for example, and direction much more accurately detect and predict the impact of climate days ahead, change. Based on what we know now, can we say that wave and combining conditions are already affected? “If you get better at sensing, you can actually inadvertently create biases. If your sensor is this with vessel- more accurate now, you could have the perception that mea- speci? c response surements are increasing when in reality you don’t know what

StormGeo models, the impact the change in device has had. The same thing goes if you observe in more places. That might tilt your average wave captain gets alerts if the estimated height up or down,” Janssen says.

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Many forecasters use the same mathematical models – it is the data fed in to those models that determines how accu- route exceeds acceptable limits.” rate the results will be. “Is the climate changing? Absolutely,” – Petter Andersen, says Janssen. “Is it going to change our weather systems over

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