But basin-wide quiet periods favor rapid intensification of U.S. landfalling hurricanes.
Hay fever might leave you wanting to live north of that Westeros Wall, but the farther north you live in the contiguous United States, the worse your allergies may get in a warming climate.
About a third of the carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning winds up in the global ocean. Repeat cruises help scientists understand what happens to that carbon below the water surface.
A saildrone observed the growth and decay of a bloom of ocean plants in the Alaskan Arctic in late summer 2017. Such blooms affect the rate of regional ocean acidification, which occurs as surface waters absorb human-produced carbon dioxide.
Most of the United States has better than even odds of June temperatures being in the warmest third of the 1981-2010 climate record.
With long ranges and adaptive capabilites, saildrones provide researchers with a new tool in their toolbox for collecting data in remote and hard to reach parts of the ocean.