The main theme of the expedition is to understand:
“Role and response of southern ocean to the regional and global climate variability" towards achieving this goal, following scientific studies have been identified:
- Study of the inter relationship between physical, chemical and biological elements occurring across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and their role in carbon sequestration and biogeochemistry
- Investigations on the air-sea-ice interaction and to understand the role of anthropogenic aerosols over southern ocean
- Implications of thermohaline variations in the southern ocean and the repercussion of heat and mass exchange between tropics and Polar Regions on biogeochemistry
- Reconstruction of the paleo-environmental conditions for selected time slices during the last glacial-interglacial cycles to provide perspectives on future climate change
- To generate relevant/critical sea truth and atmospheric data for contributing to global climate data sets for prediction of climate models to mitigate/regulate climate change.
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