Over the weekend, the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 widened to include thousands of miles of the southern Indian Ocean along with most of central Asia. The plane was last pinpointed by military radar 200 miles off the western coast of Malaysia on the traditional flight path toward Europe, but no country since has reported spotting MH370 in its airspace…Javier Zavala-Garay, a researcher at Rutgers’ Ocean Modeling Group, said in an email, “The new techniques implemented in ROMS allow us to evolve the model ‘backwards in time’ in the sense that if we know where the debris is located, say today, we could trace its position back in time to know where the debris was six days ago.” (Zavala-Garay’s group has a ROMS model that includes the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand.)
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