Robot swarm deployed to map Greenland's melting ice sheets and predict ocean current collapse
A British government-funded expedition to Greenland will deploy a swarm of robots and high-tech gadgets at glacier-sea boundaries to study ice melt in unprecedented detail. The data will feed into climate models aimed at forecasting when ice melt could trigger a shutdown of climate-regulating ocean currents, with the goal of developing an early warning system for dangerous glacial changes.
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This summer, in remote Greenland, a suite of high-tech gadgets and robots will be deployed, James Bond–like, at the treacherous points where glaciers meet the sea.
The data from the expedition, funded by the British government's secretive new inventions agency, will feed into the latest climate models.
The idea is to forecast when the ice melt will tip climate-regulating ocean currents into a shutdown, and try to develop an early warning system that would let humanity know when glaciers are changing in an alarming way.
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