Friday, January 14 2005 20:43 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Coimbatore: With scientists and various agencies working overtime to predict and sound the alert about a Tsunami attack, a city-based environment psychologist has suggested innovative strategies to prevent heat transfer of ocean waters to shore, avoiding major disasters.

The shore areas between the low and high tide area can be covered with a heat-insulative material like jute fabric to prevent Sea Surface Temperature (SST), which is always higher, compared to deep in the ocean, from being transferred to land.

As a result, the unspent SST, when returned to sea, would create a counter-current and retard the wave force, according to Vedagiri Ganesan of Bharathiar University, who has been conducting research for a decade in Environmental Psychology.

Progressive insulation of the shore area would cause withdrawal of the coastal waters into the sea, creation of a Counter-water-current that protects SST transfer to land and re-capturing of the land areas so far lost to the sea, Ganesan said.

The returning of the SST to the oceans would not cause any serious impact on marine life. The very high warmth of SST and coolness of deep water could be facilitated for heat-transfer by making use of 'under sea-mountains,' he said.

By bolstering mountains, which are already transferring SST to the deep oceans with heat-transfer materials, homeostasis can be achieved and the negative impact of ocean water on land could be effectively prevented, he claimed.