News: The scheme has recently been approved by the union cabinet.
Objectives:
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- To augment long term observations of atmosphere, ocean, geosphere, cryosphere and solid earth to record the vital signs of earth system and change.
- Development of models for better understanding and prediction of weather, ocean and climate hazards to better understand the science of climate change.
- Exploration of polar and high regions for discovery of new phenomenon and resources.
- Exploration and sustainable harnessing of oceanic resources for societal applications by development of technology.
- Translating the knowledge of earth sciences into services for societal, environmental and economic benefits.
Features:
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- Time period: 2021-2026.
- The scheme holistically addresses the five components of Earth Sciences: atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, cryosphere, and biosphere.
- It encompasses the five ongoing sub-schemes of Ministry of Earth Sciences-
- ACROSS (Atmosphere & Climate Research-Modelling Observing Systems & Services)
- O-SMART (Ocean Services, Modelling Application, Resources and Technology)
- PACER (Polar Science and Cryosphere Research)
- SAGE (Seismology and Geosciences)
- REACHOUT (Research, Education, Training, and Outreach)
Significance:
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- The mission promotes improved and wider understating of the Earth Sciences by comprehensively addressing all the five components of the Earth system.
- It is expected to develop better Understanding of weather accurately due to increased cross-disciplinary coordination and increased observation data.
- It will boost research through increased fund availability and cross disciplinary nature of the scheme.
- It enables integrated development of multi-disciplinary earth sciences research and innovation programs across different institutes of MoES.
- It will address grand challenges of weather and climate, ocean, cryosphere, seismological science, and services etc., making it more predictable.
- Exploring the living and non-living resources for their sustainable harnessing.
- It will ultimately fulfil the mandate of MoES to translate ‘Science to Services’ for the Society.
