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Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services together with the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research will be launching a glider near the country’s research station ‘Bharati’ at Antarctica to study the sea temperatures, salinity and geochemical process in the ice cold region. It is part of the new-age ocean observing platforms ‘Gliders’, as part of the Ministry of …

Indian Tsunami Early Warning Centre at Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, here in Hyderabad, has detected 716 earthquakes since its inception till date, including 103 in the Indian Ocean and 613 in other oceans. It has been making use of advanced technology and scientific models to provide initial warning of within 10 minutes of a quake of more …

New Delhi: Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services conducted the inaugural meeting of the “People-Centered Tsunami Early Warning for the Indian Coastlines ” project of the United Kingdom and India. The kick-off meeting held on May 28-30, 2024 aimed at several critical aspects of advancing the tsunami early warning system across the Indian Coastline. At a global level, the …

Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services has come out with new products and services, including an El Nino/La Nina outlook and an improved version of regional ocean analysis, by assimilating sea level anomalies and a probabilistic storm surge prediction system. El Nino/La Nina bulletin is quite interesting since the ‘El Nino and Southern Oscillation has become one of the …

Hyderabad: The swell surge that began in the Atlantic Ocean has begun ‘interacting’ with the Indian coast and the swell is expected to move northward for another 24 hours or so, the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services said on Saturday. Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, West Bengal on the eastern coast, and Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra and Gujarat …

The Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services has unveiled a brand new state-of-the-art facility, Synergistic Ocean Observation Prediction Services, for 2D/3D/4D visualisation of in situ ocean data, satellite remote sensing and model products for an integrated view of state of the ocean to scientists and policy makers on Wednesday. Union Minister of Earth Sciences Kiran Rijiju inaugurated ‘SynOPS’ along …

Indian Tsunami Early Warning Centre which houses the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services in Hyderabad stated that there is no tsunami threat to India following the detection of an earthquake of about magnitude 7.5 in the Ritcher Scale at 12.40 p.m. near the west coast of Honshu in Japan on Monday. Senior scientist B. Ajay Kumar informed that …

Marine heat waves could have provided a favourable condition for the cyclone ‘Biparjoy’ to form over the Arabian Sea and become a very severe cyclone, say scientists of the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Systems under the Ministry of Earth Sciences. These events suggest that increased cyclogenesis over the Arabian Sea in the recent decade is linked to persistent …