Ocean weather prediction system developed

Allan Robinson has been working on a system to predict weather within the oceans since the early 1980s. Computers in his laboratory at Harvard University are crammed with maps and models of the flows, temperatures, chemistry, and biology of watery depths and shallows around the globe. The year before the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990, for instance, Robinson and his colleagues had thoroughly explored coastal waters off Massachusetts in an effort to forecast the best places for commercial fishing. That information enabled the professor to help search teams locate crash victims. Robinson sees searches for victims of airplane and ship crashes as only one "product" tailored from a generic cloth that covers the global ocean from its tidal shallows to its cold, dark depths.