Monsoon prediction will become easier in the future, said Union science and technology minister Harsh Vardhan. Photo: Hindustan Times
New Delhi: The ministry of earth sciences on Wednesday unveiled an indigenously developed, remote-controlled polar vehicle, which will carry out observations in polar water. The findings from the vehicle will be used for better understanding of the climate and improve India's capability of predicting the monsoon.
The vehicle "will enable us to understand the Polar influence on ocean currents affecting the movement of monsoon winds on which much of our economy depends," said Harsh Vardhan, Union minister of science and technology.
"Monsoon prediction and reading of the pattern will become easier in the future. A moored ocean observatory has been set up in the Arctic in collaboration with the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research recently," the science and technology minister said in Chennai on Wednesday.
The Earth System Sciences Organisation–National Institute of Ocean Technology (ESSO-NIOT) team that participated in the 34th Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica (ISEA) successfully deployed the polar remote-operated vehicle in the Priyadarshini lake located on the Schirmacher Oasis in Antarctica a month ago from Maitri, India's second base in the icy continent.
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