National Monsoon Mission – UPSC Prelims

Ministry : Ministry of Earth Sciences
Mission:
  • Under the Monsoon Mission, Ministry has developed the state-of-the-art weather and climate prediction models, which are now in operational use.
  • These models include models for short range to medium range (1-10 days), extended range (10days to 30 days) and seasonal (up to one season).
  • Following are the 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 climate applications
    • 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.
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