Design and Development of a PC Controlled Acoustic Sounding System for Antarctica.

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Brief Description (Abstract):

Indian planetary boundary layer programme in Antarctica is being inducted in a phased manner. As part of this programme, a monostatic, PC controlled acoustic sounding system has been designed, developed and installed at the Indian station Maitri (70.7?S: 11.7?E) in Antarctica.

Status: Completed

Purpose: Rapid progress in the acoustic sounding technology has made it to be an effective and simple tool for probing the planetary boundary layer (McAllister, 1968,McAllister et al.,1969,Beran et al.,1971,Gurm et al.,1982) and the technique has been utilised in countless applications (Hooke et al.,1972,Somal,1981,Dutta et al.,1989,Rao et al.,1991,. As a result, there has been a rapid progress in the evelopment of technology itself and today, acoustic sounding is an integral part of almost all atmospheric science programmes even under the most hostile Antarctic environment where the success still depends on skill, magination and efforts particularly in manned operations. The Indian PBL programme in Antarctica is relatively new. By now, an automatic weather station and a 9m operational instrumented tower have been established to record data apart from the surface based meteorological observations, radiation data and radiosonde flights.An acoustic sounder has also been fitted.

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Keyword(s): Earth Science-Paleoclimate,

Place/Location(s): Maitri, Antarctic,

Project: Design and Development of a PC Controlled Acoustic Sounding System for Antarctica,

Topic Category(s): ClimatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere,

Date(s): 2020-09-14 (Creation),

Resource Contact(s):
1. Name : Dr. N C Deb
    Role : PrincipalInvestigator
    Phone : 8322525515
    E-Mail : ictd [ at ] ncpor.res.in
    Organization Name : National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR)
    Address : Headland Sada, Vasco da Gama, Goa 403804
    City : Vasco-da-Gama
    State : Goa
    Postal Code : 403804
    Country : IND

Distributor Contact(s):
1. Name : Mr. Sakthivel Samy V
    Role : Distributor
    Phone : +91-832-2525515
    E-Mail : vssamy [ at ] ncpor.res.in
    Organization Name : National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR)
    Address : Headland Sada, Vasco da Gama, Goa 403804
    City : Vasco-da-Gama
    State : Goa
    Postal Code : 403804
    Country : IND

Metadata Contact(s):
1. Name : Mr. Sakthivel Samy V
    Role : PointOfContact
    Phone : +91-832-2525515
    E-Mail : vssamy [ at ] ncpor.res.in
    Organization Name : National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR)
    Address : Headland Sada, Vasco da Gama, Goa 403804
    City : Vasco-da-Gama
    State : Goa
    Postal Code : 403804
    Country : IND

Extent:
Start Date : 1991-01-01
End Date   : 1992-12-31