UK, India Scientists Joined Hands to Use Underwater Robots for Better Monsoon Prediction

New Delhi: With irregular monsoon and warmer summers- a combined initiative of Indian and UK scientists seems like will end the abnormalities.

Scientists from UK’s University of East Angelia and University of Reading have collaborated with the Bay of Bengal Boundary Layer Experiment (BoBBLE) to release underwater robots to monitor ocean conditions that will lead to predict more accurate monsoon in the country. National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Southampton is also taking part in the project

On June 24, researchers from four Indian institutions- the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS) Bangalore, the Indian National Centre for Climate Information Services (INCOIS) Hyderabad, the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) NOIDA NCR and the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) Chennai- will get on from Chennai on the Indian Oceanographic Research Vessel ORV Sindhu Sadhana. 

“The scientists will combine oceanic and atmospheric measurements to monitor weather systems as they are generated, in an Rs 80 crore (Pounds sterling 8 million) project, one of the biggest scientific studies of the Indian monsoon,” asserted Professor P.N. Vinayachandran who will lead the field experiment of ORV Sindhu Sadhana.

EXIN Times sources said that the team of scientists will spend a month at sea and will collect data from 250 mile area from the water using mobile phone signals daily.

Research Professor Addrian Matthews, who will lead the research on board said that predicting Indian monsoons are not easy and cannot be understood of recorded in science. “We will be combining oceanic and atmospheric measurements to monitor weather systems as they are generated. Nobody has ever made observations on this scale during the monsoon season itself so this is a truly ground-breaking project,” he added.

Matthews also added that apart from predicting monsoon in the Indian sub-continent, the research is expected to ‘mitigate international disasters’ caused due to monsoon, excessive rainfall and flooding, affecting the worldwide climate.