{"id":13515,"date":"2016-06-15T14:48:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T14:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/?p=13515"},"modified":"2016-06-15T15:19:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T15:19:10","slug":"underwater-robots-in-bay-of-bengal-to-predict-indian-monsoon-accurately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/underwater-robots-in-bay-of-bengal-to-predict-indian-monsoon-accurately\/","title":{"rendered":"India collaborates with Britain to Use Underwater Robots for Precise Monsoon Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Millions of farmers and agricultural laborers across India are at the mercy of whimsical monsoon which affects their livelihoods every year resulting in suicides and a huge setback to the economy.<\/strong> Precise forecasting of monsoon is a pressing need of the hour to improve livelihoods of Indian farmers and save the economy.<\/p>\n

Indian scientists have joined hands with a team of scientists from Britain to come up with a reliable solution to predict the status of Indian monsoon. As per the $11.3 million Indo-British project, seven underwater robots will be released into the Bay of Bengal along the east coast of India.<\/strong> The robots will study the changes in the aquatic environment and ecosystem of the ocean, which is supposed to be largely responsible for uncertainty and delay of monsoon.<\/p>\n

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Both Indian and British scientists opine that the data collected from the studies by those robots in the Bay of Bengal will help to frame a better picture of monsoon<\/a><\/span> for farmers and agricultural laborers<\/strong> who mostly depend on monsoon rains for cultivation in India. Indian monsoon is a focus of international studies across the globe. Monsoon rains are vital for economic growth of six South Asian nations including India.<\/p>\n

The team of scientists from the University of East Anglia, the University of Reading and the National Oceanography Centre in the UK along with a team of climate experts in India will set sail on a special research ship, Sindhu Sadhana, from Chennai into the Bay of Bengal on June 24.<\/p>\n

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This collaboration between India and Britain is a groundbreaking project, which is the first of its kind because such high-level studies on the temperature, salinity, currents and ecosystem of the Bay of Bengal has not been done before. – Adrian Matthews, a leading scientist<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The underwater robots resemble miniature submarines and have computers on board. The robots will be studying different aspects in the southern section of the Bay of Bengal for a month. Moreover, a plane with a group of researchers and scientific equipment will be deployed over the ocean to measure the on-surface atmosphere.<\/strong> It is a part of the multimillion-dollar study on Indian monsoon.<\/p>\n

More accurate monsoon predictions can help over 200 million Indian farmers better prepare for droughts and floods, which incurs a loss of multi-billion dollars to the nation every year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Millions of farmers and agricultural laborers across India are at the mercy of whimsical monsoon which affects their livelihoods every year resulting in suicides and a huge setback to the economy. Precise forecasting of monsoon is a pressing need of the hour to improve livelihoods of Indian farmers and save the economy. Indian scientists have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[114,265],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-indian-monsoon","tag-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t