Archive for April 23rd, 2007

Clouds from Top to Bottom

by Patrick L. Barry
During the summer and fall of 2006, U.S. Coast Guard planes flew over the North Pacific in search of illegal, unlicensed, and unregulated fishing boats. It was a tricky operation—in part because low clouds often block the pilots’ view of anything floating on the ocean surface below.
To assist in these efforts, they […]