Is It Safe to Swim? a New Tool Predicts the Severity of Ocean Pollution.

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Imagine being able to check the likelihood of ocean pollution the same way you check the weather. This idea was put into practice Tuesday by a team of researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, who released the first version of a “Pathogen Forecast Model” that projects five days into the future, using weather, tide, wave, and river flow forecasts to calculate likely ocean water conditions…