ESSO-INCOIS-Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services

ESSO - Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services

(An Autonomous Body under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India)
Home Organisation Activity Spectrum

Activity Spectrum

Provide:

  • Potential Fishing Zone( Mission - mode)
  • Experimental Ocean State Forecast ( Mission - mode)
  • Marine Meteorogical Advisory Services
  • Web-based Ocean Information Services
  • Value-added Services and Decision Support Systems

Contribute to:

  • Storm Surge Prediction and Disaster Management
  • Climate / Monsoon / Weather Forecast
  • Monitoring of Pollution / Oil Spill
  • Global Ocean Observing System

Establish:

  • Infrastructure for Ocean Information, Modelling
  • Regional Argo Data Centre
  • National Argo Data Centre
  • Ocean Portal

Implement:

  • Argo Project ( 250+ floats in Indian Ocean)
  • Realise real time capability of measurements of Temperature and Salinity through the Upper 2000 metres of the Ocean.

    Contribute to a Global description of the Seasonal cycle and Inter-annual variablility of the upper Ocean Thermohaline Circulation.

  • Ocean Observation Systems:
  • Satellite Coastal and Oceanographic Research (SATCORE)

    Mission on Ocean -Atmosphere System and the Indain Ocean

Orchestrate:

  • Human Resource Development for Ocean Sciences and Services