WHOI Senior Scientist Mark Grosenbaugh and his graduate students have
developed a computer program
that can simulate the forces that can act on moorings—buoyancy,
gravity, currents, waves, drag, and so on. “I build a numerical
mooring, stick it in a numerical ocean, and calculate all the forces on
each of the components,” he said.
(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)[back]
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