Like the weather, pollution in ocean can be forecast
Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have unveiled a tool that forecasts sewage-contamination levels at beaches in south San Diego County. It’s called the Pathogen Forecast Model hosted by the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System at Scripps. The Pathogen Forecast Model website provides detailed estimates shoreline sewage concentrations and the likelihood of swimmers getting sick for Playas Tijuana, Imperial Beach, Silver Strand State Park, and Coronado. … According to [Scripps oceanographer Falk] Feddersen, the tool is the first of its kind in the nation that responds to a longstanding problem of raw sewage from Mexico circulating in the coastal ocean on both sides of the border.
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