The Hindu Business Line is reporting that “almost 72 per cent of the Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction (RAMA), a new moored buoy array in the Indian Ocean, would be complete by the end of this year.

RAMA is designed for advancing monsoon research and forecasting which, when complete, will consist of 46 deep-ocean moorings across the Indian Ocean basin.

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) would provide surface and subsurface moorings to be deployed from research vessels provided by India, according to Dr Sidney Thurston, International Coordinator of the NOAA Climate Program Office.

“By early next year, the implementation of the ocean observing system should be over,” Dr Thurston informed Business Line. NOAA and the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences have entered into a partnership for earth observations and earth sciences for an implementing arrangement.”

Full story in The Hindu Business Line.