(a) Whether India is hopeful of joining the global flux network;
(b) If so, the details thereof;
(c) Whether it would enable to collect data pertaining to environmental
changes including pollution;
(d) Whether a Central repository for data is to be established; and
(e) If so, the details thereof ?
MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND MINISTER OF EARTH SCIENCES (KAPIL SIBAL)
(a) to (e): The possibility and feasibility of setting up a Indian Flux
Network through a set of instrumented towers for measuring gaseous fluxes
and meteorological parameters in various representative ecological
environments of the country is being studied.