MOSAic Mission

GS-III: MOSAic Mission

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Vishnu Nandan, a 32-year-old polar researcher from Kerala, will be the only Indian among 300 scientists from across the world aboard the MOSAiC expedition.

MOSAiC

MOSAiC stands for Multidisciplinary drifting observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate.
It aims for studying the impact of climate change on the Arctic and how it could affect the rest of the world.
MOSAiC is 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.
Previous studies have been of shorter periods as the thicker sea ice sheets prevent access in winter.

Key highlights:

Under it, the German research vessel Polarstern has been anchored on a large sheet of sea ice in the Central Arctic.
They will allow the water to freeze around them, effectively trapping themselves in the vast sheet of white that forms over the North Pole each winter.
They will build temporary winter research camps on the ice, allowing them to perform tests that wouldn’t be possible at other times of the year or by satellite sensing.

Significance:

The results of MOSAiC mission will contribute to enhance understanding of the regional and global consequences of Arctic climate change.
It will be helpful in understanding the reasons behind the sea-ice loss and improve weather and climate predictions.
Its expeditions will support safer maritime and offshore operations, increase coastal-community resilience, contribute to an improved scientific basis for future traffic along northern sea routes.

Source: THE HINDU

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