Publication Date:
2021-05-19
Description:
Prior to the International Geophysical Year
(1957–1958) and before the acceptance of
ideas about continental drift and the emergence
of the theory of plate tectonics, the
Indian Ocean was viewed as one of the last
great frontiers of Earth exploration. During
this post–World War II era, many new technologies
were emerging for sampling the ocean
and atmosphere and for mapping deep- ocean
topography. Yet fundamental descriptive work
still remained to be done on oceanic and
atmospheric circulation, marine geology, and
biological and ecological variability in the
Indian Ocean.
Motivated by these technological developments
and the opportunity to explore one of
the last great frontiers on Earth, the Scientific
Committee on Ocean Research (SCOR) and
the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
(IOC) launched one of the greatest
oceanographic expeditions of all time: the
International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE).
An interdisciplinary endeavor embracing
physical oceanography, chemical oceanography,
marine biology, meteorology, and marine
geology and geophysics, IIOE was a monumental
mid- twentieth- century oceanographic
research program that conducted an unprecedented
number of hydrographic surveys
covering the entire Indian Ocean basin
Description:
Published
Keywords:
IIOE-2
;
IIOE
;
Historical account
;
ASFA_2015::E::Expeditions (multiship)
Repository Name:
AquaDocs
Type:
Journal Contribution
,
Refereed
Format:
pp.349-350
