These are measurements of wind, temperature, humidity, right at that interface level that may help the modelers understand the fundamentals of hurricanes better.
Modelers are also tracking the changing colors in Saharan dust, the species of plankton in sea spray and the daily rates of photosynthesis—literally watching forests breathe.
As an energy systems modeler, I can tell you that though the baseline is low, where they do have power, many Sub-Saharan African countries already rely on low-carbon resources.
Heckles played clarinet in band, and I played clarinet. And he was in the scale modeler's club, and I was, well, there was no club, but I sure thought they were cool.
So climate modelers might take our results from Greenland and implement that into a part of their climate model so we can start to build up a picture of what we could expect to happen in the future.