The world's largest solar-powered boat, Turanor PlanetSolar, has docked on the banks of Seine River, its final port of its 3-month voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to study how the Gulf Stream and climate change could influence each other. Starting from Miami in June, University of Geneva scientists had sailed up the eastern seaboard of the United States, then across the Atlantic Ocean, taking water and air measurements that should allow them to better understand the complex interaction between the ocean and the atmosphere.
The expedition's chief climatologist Martin Beniston commented, "Our first surprise when we started looking at the data is the quantity of the aerosols that are actually injected into the atmosphere by the ocean, which means we might have underestimated the climatic role of the oceans via aerosols."
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