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• Sagar Paschimi was dry-docked at Visakhapatnam fishing harbour dry-dock facility and completed all annual surveys by CLASS and statutory body. • Sagar Paschimi was deployed for Ph. D students of Anna University, Geology department to study the shallow continental shelf in the East coast of Tamil Nadu. • Sagar Paschimi was deployed on satellite data validation study. • Sagar Purvi was deployed for NIO-Goa for Poly-oceanography of Northern Indian Ocean. • Sagar Purvi was deployed for NIO-Goa for surface water Isotope finger printing of waters in 20 m water depth and investigating all parameters between Pamban to Goa. 68 Ministry of Earth Sciences : Annual Report 2009-10
12 International Cooperation 12.1 Participation in International/UN Organisations • Vice Chair, Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programme (COMNAP) • Vice President, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) • Founder member of Asian Forum for Polar Science (AFOPS) that has China, Korea, Japan, and Malaysia as other partners • Member-Legal and Technical Commission, • Member-United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea • Member-Finance Committee, International Seabed Authority (ISBA) • Member-Commission on the Limits of Continental Shelf (CLCS) • Chairman-Sub-commission, examine the submissions by Barbados • Member, Executive Council, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and continued to be a Member of the Executive Council • Chair, Indian Ocean Global Ocean observing system (IOGOOS) • Member, Partnership for Observation of Global Ocean (POGO) • IBSA–Ocean is an emerging trilateral cooperation among India, Brazil and South Africa in the field of ocean science and technology. 12.2 SAARC-Activities • SAARC Disaster Management Centre (SDMC) has been established at National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), New Delhi, under Ministry of Home Affairs. IMD has close cooperation with the centre. IMD organised a workshop on “Use of Satellite Products in day to day Weather Forecasting Techniques” from 1 st to 14 st March, 2008. • Under International Programme Committee (IPC) of SAARC, India has offered installation of observing centres. Bangladesh: 25 AWS, 1 GPS receiver Bhutan: 10 AWS, 1 GPS receiver Nepal: 15 WS, 1 GPS receiver and 1 DWR Maldives: INSAT Digital meteorological Dissemination Nepal: INSAT Digital Meteorological Dissemination Sri Lanka: INSAT Digital Meteorological Dissemination 12.3 Bilateral Cooperation • Indo-Russian Cooperation Programme: Earth Sciences and Oceanology and Gas hydrates’ under Integrated Long-Term Programmes (ILTP) • Cooperation with NOAA, USA: Weather and climate science • Cooperation with UKMO, UK: Unified model for weather and climate • Cooperation with NERC (Natural Environmental Regional Council): Water cycle • Cooperation with University centre in Svalbard: Polar Science Ministry of Earth Sciences : Annual Report 2009-10 69
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Contents 1 An Overview of the Minis
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