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Pradeep Kumar

10/02/21 13:16 PM IST

National Monsoon Mission

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Under the Monsoon Mission, Ministry has developed the state-of-the-art weather and climate prediction models, which are now in operational use.

Targets of Monsoon Mission
  • Development of a seamless prediction system using monsoon mission model, on different time scales, like Seasonal (for whole Monsoon season), Extended range (up-to 4 weeks), Short range prediction (up-to 5days).
  • Initiate and coordinate working partnership between Indian and foreign institutes to develop a system for prediction of extremes and climateapplications
  • Develop and implement system for climate applications having social impacts (such as agriculture, flood forecast, extreme events forecast, wind energy,etc.)
  • Advanced data assimilation system for preparing high quality data for model predictions.

National Monsoon Mission

  • It was launched by the Ministry of Earth Sciences in 2012.
  • Its aim is to improve the forecasting skills by setting up a state-of-the-art dynamic prediction system for monsoon rainfall different time scales.
  • NMM builds a working partnership between the academic and research and development (R&D) organisations, both national and international.
  • Its augmentation with the HPC facilities has helped the country in achieving a paradigm shift in weather and climate modelling for operational weather forecasts.
Source: PIB

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