MoES informed Rajya Sabha about National Monsoon Mission

The Ministry of Earth Science has informed Rajya Sabha about National Monsoon Mission.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021

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).

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.