Century-old research ship William Scoresby laid groundwork for El Niño tracking
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Gill Sennett, Paul Johnson
Summary
A century ago, the Royal Research Ship William Scoresby departed from Hull on a voyage to the southern oceans to research whale stocks, particularly around the Falkland Islands. The ship's work laid foundational understanding of Pacific currents, including the Humboldt current, which has been crucial for tracking phenomena like El Niño. The article highlights how these forgotten voyages contributed significantly to modern climate science.
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One of the reasons we know quite a lot about it is that the foundations for our understanding of these currents in the Pacific, a lot of them were laid by a research ship called the William Scoresby
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