The Navy will use the machine principally for oceanographic modeling and weather forecasting.
Another lesson to be learned, to continue using my oceanographic metaphor.
Many oceanographic surveys have already discovered plumes of methane rising from the ocean floor, particularly in the Arctic, Elliott notes.
With more attention paid to the study of the inshore shelf oceanography, China has established a multidisciplinary oceanographic research system with regional characteristics.
Then in 2000 a British oceanographic vessel recorded a 29-metre wave off the coast of Scotland.