Sofar Ocean - Ocean Science

Ocean Science

Date: July 6, 2026
Title: Extreme Weather, El Niño 2026

Date: April 23, 2025
Title: Commentary: AI Merged With Human Knowledge Produces the Best Possible Weather Forecasts

Date: February 12, 2025
Title: How Sofar uses data assimilation to deliver the most accurate real-time marine weather intelligence

Date: January 15, 2025
Title: Why the Weather Act Reauthorization is critical for advancing forecasting and building climate resilience in the U.S.

Date: May 17, 2024
Title: Spotter Platform outperforms peer wave buoys in independent field comparison

Date: May 7, 2024
Title: Footprint of the air-sea momentum transfer saturation observed by ocean wave buoy network in extreme tropical cyclones

Date: April 17, 2024
Title: Continuous peak period estimates from discrete surface-wave spectra

Date: February 14, 2024
Title: Evaluation of ICESat-2 Significant Wave Height Data with Buoy Observations in the Great Lakes and Application in Examination of Wave Model Predictions

Date: January 30, 2024
Title: Performance of moored GPS wave buoys

Date: December 1, 2023
Title: Proxy Observations of Surface Wind from a Globally Distributed Network of Wave Buoys

Date: November 16, 2023
Title: Harnessing Innovation: Reauthorize the Weather Act for a Resilient Future

Date: October 9, 2023
Title: Estimating Directional Wave Spectra Properties in Non-Breaking Waves from a UAS-Mounted Multi-beam Lidar

Date: October 3, 2023
Title: Constraining chaos: Enforcing dynamical invariants in the training of reservoir computers

Date: September 11, 2023
Title: Estimation and Use of Wave Information for Ship Monitoring

Date: September 5, 2023
Title: Airdropped Spotters make direct observations of Hurricane Idalia to improve existing forecasts

Date: August 29, 2023
Title: Saturation of Ocean Surface Wave Slopes Observed During Hurricanes

Date: August 4, 2023
Title: Ocean wave buoy network in extreme tropical cyclones detects the saturation of air-sea momentum transfer

Date: May 3, 2023
Title: How accounting for instability in the lower atmosphere improves forecasts of extreme waves

Date: April 26, 2023
Title: An Ocean Scientist explains... Vessel Performance Models (VPM)

Date: April 25, 2023
Title: Ensemble-based data assimilation of significant wave height from Sofar Spotters and satellite altimeters with a global operational wave model