May 25—Good progress continues.

Background: Notes here on our Google Earth tracking of Jacob Adoram

                                 Index of Google Earth overlays.  Download the KLM file.
We are updating frequently now, so best to download the KML file and update your Google Earth.

Good progress continues. We added the Navy WindSat scatterometer (on satellite Coriolis) to the ASCAT scatterometer (on the satellite Metop-A). It is not often we can compare the data for the same time exactly, but we will try to do that when possible.

Here is a preliminary comparison.

and then the ASCAT data 14 hr later...

Blue is under 15 kts; green is over 15 kts. We see he is still right on that edge of just about 15 kts, which is indeed the climatic expectation for this location and month.  You can view the climatic winds in the KML file. Please update that for latest components.

We have also added  new range rings at 100 nmi, and shut off in default  mode the 400-mile rings.  He is now well under 350 nmi to go, which could seem  like a lot until we remember he has rowed something approaching 9,000 miles!

Check back later for a video discussion and demo to date... discusses charts and lights, as well as relative climate... ie Cairns is "south of Jamaica."  [This has been postponed till tomorrow's post.]

We will also be adding shortly a note and video on how to track the scatterometer satellites to predict future passes.