INCOIS to work on local climate advisories on rising sea levels

Accurate predictions are a big help as it can save precious lives, says expert

Oceans impact the weather and the climate. With global warming sea levels rise is an established fact, but there is a dire need to to downscale the predictability to local levels as it has impact on coastal communities, said Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) Director T. Srinivasa Kumar on Monday.

“There are broad-based predictions about the sea levels rise as a whole like the Indian Ocean rises by 3-4 mm each year due to warming, however, we need local climate advisories which we are planning to do under the ‘Deep Ocean Mission’ in the next five years,” he explained.

“We will be launching lot of observation systems to downscale the high resolution dynamical and statistical models to come out with climate change advisories in the coastal areas,” said Dr. Kumar. This is to be done through deep sea argo floats which can go upto 5 km deep to measure temperatures, salinity, currents, etc., and the gliders which can move from East Coast till the Andaman & Nicobar Islands recording the observations in the Bay of Bengal,” said the director.