Southern Ocean  Carbon Processes (SOCarP): Deployment of biogeochemistry and current meter mooring and sub-surface sediment trap mooring for a comprehensive understanding of the seasonal and inter-annual variability of the physical, biogeochemical and biological parameters and fluxes (air-sea and vertical/biological pump).

Ongoing Southern Ocean programme will be implemented to achieve the following scientific goals:

• Heat budget, zonal and meridional heat transport
• Carbon cycle.
• Comprehensive understanding of the conventional food-web and microbial loop in the various frontal regions.
• Plankton biodiversity and to create a plankton database.
• Molecular taxonomy of plankton.
• Biophysical coupling
• Turbulence structure of Southern Ocean troposphere.
• Physical and chemical characteristics of aerosols and its impact on radiative forcing
• Development of a suitable ecosystem model

Other Scientific programmes in the Tropical Indian Ocean

• Seychelles-Chagos Thermocline Ridge (SCTR) & Maiden-Julian Oscillation studies.
• Sub-tropical Indian Ocean Oligotrophic Gyre Studies.