26 Jun 2017 | 06:05am IST
Southern Ocean expedition to deploy under-ice mooring
PANJIM: India’s 2017-18 expedition to Southern Ocean (SO), scheduled in December, will deploy an under ice mooring to understand the seasonal variability in the dynamics and bio-chemical processes of the coastal waters of Bharathi station at Antarctica.
PANJIM: India’s 2017-18 expedition to Southern Ocean (SO), scheduled in December, will deploy an under ice mooring to understand the seasonal variability in the dynamics and bio-chemical processes of the coastal waters of Bharathi station at Antarctica.
The SO research programme will focus on the ‘Role and response of Southern Ocean to the regional and global climate variability’.
As per a statement released, Goa-based National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), said that the SO expedition 2017, observations were made in the Prydz Bay (PB) region during the austral summer, however, the plan for SO expedition 2017-18 is to deploy an under-ice mooring for a period of one year.
“This time, the observations are significant to understand the seasonal variability in the dynamics and biochemical processes of the coastal waters of Bharathi station as well as its impact on this ecosystem,” NCAOR stated. Bharathi is the third Indian station on Antarctica.
The tenth southern ocean expedition (SOE) to the Indian Ocean sector of the SO will be launched in early December 2017 to have a comprehensive study in the region between Polar Front (PF) and PB as well as with an under ice mooring in the coastal waters of the Bharati station.
