High-Flying Frigate Birds Collect Data from the Top of the Sky

High-Flying Frigate Birds Collect Data from the Top of the Sky

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Through a stroke of luck scientists discovered Frigate Birds routinely fly high enough to collect valuable data.

Via Scientific American:

They found that frigatebirds fly high enough to skim the edge of the planetary boundary layer, a low layer of the atmosphere that interacts with the surface of the Earth to influence clouds, winds and other weather-related factors. They can collect all kinds of useful atmospheric measurements when they’re outfitted with special sensors.

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