India may soon have giant atmospheric flux towers installed at strategic locations to monitor levels of carbon dioxide and other environmental variables.
The idea of setting it up has been initiated by Dr Pallaoor Sundareshwar at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology along with a team of environmental scientists.The Department of Science and Technology, India plans to spend $ 50 million to set it up.
If implemented, the flux tower network labeled INDOFLUX may help India have better detection systems for monitoring key parameters like atmospheric gases that reflect the state of India’s environment.
Perhaps renaming INDOFLUX as Indian envirometer may help spell out it's role a bit more clearly.
Source: http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070409/full/070409-12.html
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