"These simulations ought to go to the next stage and include realistic ocean forcing," he says.
Using human observers and advanced sensors, the organization is mapping the area from a C-130 Hercules aircraft named Ocean Force One. .
For years, counter-piracy naval forces in the Indian Ocean were forced to release up to eighty per cent of the suspected pirates they detained, not only because no country wanted to prosecute, but also because they lacked evidence.
The threat of piracy in the Indian Ocean has forced the organisers to change the race route and ditch plans to sail through an East African corridor known as "pirate alley" on the second leg from Cape Town to Abu Dhabi.
Three years ago, the Seychelles, in the Indian Ocean, was forced to drop an outrageous proposal that would have given investors of $10m or more immunity from extradition or from having to forfeit their assets.Why Antigua?
Ocean was forced to scrap the remainder of his Australian mini-tour after he suffered a tear to one of his vocal cords last week.
Sweaty and blinking under blazing lights in the Ronald Reagan presidential library, the 11 candidates looked more like the shipwrecked survivors of a corporate plane crash, dazed after being hauled out from the ocean and forced to give a press conference in front of the giant jet that rescued them.
The tectonic events involved in the breakup of Rodinia also modified the ocean basins, forcing their expansion and flooding portions of many continents.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, still missing somewhere in the Indian Ocean, could force the development of the next generation of flight-data recorders, which are often called "black boxes".
In the summer it is undercut by the cooler winds of the southwest monsoon, blowing in from the ocean; this forces the harmattan to rise to an altitude of about 900 to 1,800 metres (about 3,000 to 6,000 feet).
As the authors state in the paper, "Our findings imply that the outlet glaciers of Greenland, and the ice sheet as a whole, are probably more vulnerable to ocean thermal forcing and peripheral thinning than inferred previously from existing numerical ice-sheet models".
