APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) TO ASSESS THE ROLE OF COVID-19 LOCKDOWN IN THE DOMAIN OF ESTUARINE ACIDIFICATION

Abstract

The branch of computer science that deals with the simulation of variables with the help of a computer are termed Artificial Intelligence (AI). Here we attempt to predict the pace of acidification in the Digha coast of the Bay of Bengal based on available datasets of more than three decades. The ground zero observation on the data set reveals a decreasing trend of pH since 1984 with a sudden hike in premonsoon 2020, the period coinciding with the COVID 19 lockdown phase in the Indian sub-continent.