Australia’s top science agency has created a task force of oceanographers to help search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is using ocean surface modelling to track ocean debris spotted in satellite images. The CSIRO can combine these images with computer modelling of ocean topography and currents to “hindcast”, or map out a possible crash site for the lost airliner in the southern Indian Ocean.
The CSIRO explains its contribution on the agency’s news blog as helping to direct air and ocean searches to areas where debris that appears in satellite images could have drifted. It’s also using information obtained from the Global Drifter Programme, a network of satellite-tracked floating buoys created by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States to monitor changes in global ocean temperatures.
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