Question: MOSAiC is the multidisciplinary drifting observatory, which will move to a long expedition for the Study of the climate of which region?
(a) Arctic
(b) Equatorial
(c) Antarctica
(d) Mediterranean
Answer: (a)
Related facts:
- In November 2019; MOSAiC, the multidisciplinary drifting observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate will start its expedition.
- It is a one-year-long expedition into the Central Arctic, planned to take place from 2019 to 2020.
- The largest ever Arctic expedition in history will be the first to conduct a study of this scale at the North Pole for an entire year.
- MOSAiC observatory is unique in terms of the logistical challenges involved, the total number of participants, and the number of participating countries.
- Mr. Vishnu Nandan will be the only Indian among 300 scientists in this drifting observatory.
- 32-year-old polar researcher Mr. Nandan is a native of Kerala’s capital Thiruvananthapuram.
- He will be aboard the German research vessel Polar stern, anchored on a large sheet of sea ice in the Central Arctic, drifting along with it during the pitch-black Polar winter.
- MOSAiC will help the researchers better understand the impact of climate change and aid in improved weather projections.
- The aim of the expedition will be to parameterise the atmospheric, geophysical, oceanographic and all other possible variables in the Arctic.
- The lead organisation in expedition MOSAiC is Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany.
Links:
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/indias-vishnu-nandan-among-300-researchers-to-join-largest-ever-arctic-expedition/article29612285.ece
https://www.mosaic-expedition.org/expedition/