The findings of the expedition could help scientists to better predict how climate change will have an impact on sea levels around the world.
In 2016 the British Natural Environment Research Council asked the public to help name one of their new research ships via an internet poll. Unexpectedly, the results made international headlines when it was announced that the most popular name choice was"Boaty McBoatface"—first suggested as a joke by a local radio DJ.
During a three-day research expedition aboard the RRS James Clark in 2017, scientists from Princeton University, the University of Southampton in the U.K., the British Antarctic Survey, the U.K. National Oceanography Centre and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution used Boaty to take measurements at the bottom of the Southern Ocean.
Scientists know that factors such as the hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica and rising temperatures have led to stronger winds in the Southern Ocean region in recent decades.
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