{"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":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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. <strong>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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Underwater-robots-in-Bay-of-Bengal-to-predict-Indian-monsoon-accurately.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13519 size-full\" title=\"India collaborates with Britain to Use Underwater Robots for Precise Monsoon Predictions\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Underwater-robots-in-Bay-of-Bengal-to-predict-Indian-monsoon-accurately.jpg\" alt=\"Indian monsoon, Indian farmers, underwater robots, British scientists, Indian researchers, Bay of Bengal \" width=\"668\" height=\"475\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>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 <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/tag\/indian-monsoon\/\" target=\"_blank\">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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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. &#8211;<strong> Adrian Matthews, a leading scientist<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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, <strong>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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>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<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><b>Also Read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/water-crisis-in-india-ways-of-water-conservation\/\" class=\"ss-button default\">How India Fights against Water Crisis<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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