UPSC Prelims 2015 Question:

The term ‘IndARC’, sometimes seen in the news, is the name of

Explanation:

• IndARC is India's first underwater moored observatory in the Arctic region. It was deployed in 2014 at Kongsfjorden fjord, Svalbard, Norway which is midway between Norway and the North Pole. Its research goal is to study the Arctic climate and its influence on the monsoon.
  
  
• The Kongsfjorden is an established reference site for the Arctic marine studies. The Kongsfjorden has been considered as a natural laboratory for studying Arctic climate variability, as it receives varying climatic signals from the Arcitc/Atlantic in the course of an annual seasonal cycle.
  
  
• ESSO-NCAOR has been continuously monitoring the Kongsfjorden since 2010 for understanding the response of the fjord to climate variability at different time scales. The temperature and salinity profiles of the fjord, water column nutrients and diversity of biota are being monitored at close spatiotemporal scales throughout the spring-summer-fall seasons.
  
  

Therefore, option (4) is the correct answer.

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