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The 20th Indian Antarctic Expedition was flagged off on-board M.V. Magdalena Oldenorff from Cape Town on 30 December 2000. The team comprising a total of 51 members was led by Shri Mervin J. D’Souza from Geological Survey of India. The 20th IAE team consisted of 51 members including 34 scientists from various scientific Organisations/Universities/Departments and 17 logistic members. After successful completion of all logistics and scientific tasks the 20th IAE team returned to India on March 2002. == Objectives == *Measurement of the ice thickness to decipher the sub-ice stratigraphy by ground probe radar profiling. *Systematic coring of the lake bottom sediments for reconstruction of the past vegetative history. *Study of the influence or aerosol forcing on the atmospheric radiation budget and climate over Antarctica. *Micro plankton distribution and their energy pattern in fresh water lake ecosystem 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Twentieth Indian Expedition to Antarctica」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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