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BANGALORE, SEPT. 27. French scientists belonging to the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) visited various academic and research establishments here today, mostly holding discussions. Bernard Larrouturou, director-general of CNRS, France's equivalent of India's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), who was leading the delegation, hoped that the dream of an India- French network of virtual labs to study climate change would finally become a reality. Mr. Bernard and the director-general of CSIR, R.A. Mashelkar, are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) tomorrow in Delhi to build the network. Two years ago, The Hindu had reported that the signing of a MoU during a visit of Gerard Megie, the then president of CNRS, had been delayed, as India's Ministry of External Affairs had not cleared the project yet.
Virtual labs
The network of five virtual labs, called IFCEC (India-French Centre for Environment and Climate), will have a host of institutes in both the countries, collaborating on building better models to explain such phenomenon as the monsoons. Nodal agencies for IFCEC will be the Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation (C-MMACS), an autonomous society here under the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, and France's Institut Pierre Simmon Laplace, where nearly 300 scientists in six laboratories were studying climatic changes. IFCEC, a multi-institution research platform, will study the variability of monsoons, and the emission and uptake of carbon dioxide. Leading up to the MoU, scientists from both sides have collaborated on such projects as "Forecasting Extreme Events", and "Modelling and Observations of the Tropical Variabilities".
Other India-French collaborations on climate change include mega tropiques, a joint satellite programme to study how the earth, oceans and the atmosphere interact with each other. The satellite is to be launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
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