{"id":86566,"date":"2019-11-20T09:29:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T09:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=86566"},"modified":"2019-11-20T09:29:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T09:29:56","slug":"mosaic-arctic-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/mosaic-arctic-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"MOSAiC Arctic Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: MOSAiC is the multidisciplinary drifting observatory, which will move to a long expedition for the Study of the climate of which region?<br> (a) Arctic <br> (b) Equatorial<br> (c) Antarctica<br> (d) Mediterranean<br> Answer: (a)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In November 2019; MOSAiC, the multidisciplinary drifting observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate will start its expedition.<\/li><li>It is a one-year-long expedition into the Central Arctic, planned to take place from 2019 to 2020. <\/li><li>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.<\/li><li>MOSAiC observatory is unique in terms of the logistical challenges involved, the total number of participants, and the number of participating countries.<\/li><li>Mr. Vishnu Nandan will be the only Indian among 300 scientists in this drifting observatory.<\/li><li>32-year-old polar researcher Mr. Nandan is a native of Kerala\u2019s capital Thiruvananthapuram.<\/li><li>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.<\/li><li>MOSAiC will help the researchers better understand the impact of climate change and aid in improved weather projections.<\/li><li>The aim of the expedition will be to parameterise the atmospheric, geophysical, oceanographic and all other possible variables in the Arctic.<\/li><li>The lead organisation in expedition MOSAiC is Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/indias-vishnu-nandan-among-300-researchers-to-join-largest-ever-arctic-expedition\/article29612285.ece\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/indias-vishnu-nandan-among-300-researchers-to-join-largest-ever-arctic-expedition\/article29612285.ece<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mosaic-expedition.org\/expedition\/\">https:\/\/www.mosaic-expedition.org\/expedition\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":86567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}