BoBBLE or the Bay of Bengal Boundary Layer Experiment is a jointly funded project by the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK.
UPSC Prelims Facts: BoBBLE
- Recently a study on this project findings was published in the Nature Scientific Reports.
- Using a research vessel in the southern Bay of Bengal, the teams from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK, and several Indian institutions have created a blueprint for future weather system observational experiments, critical for forecasting things such as rainfall amounts.
- According to the study report, large-scale weather events, such as monsoons and tropical cyclones, can now be more accurately predicted.
- The research project was led by Prof P. N. Vinayachandran, of the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and Prof Adrian Matthews, of the Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences in UEA’s School of Environmental Sciences and School of Mathematics.
Source: Phys.org
