National Monsoon Mission: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 18 April 2022

National Monsoon Mission

✓It was launched by the Ministry of Earth Sciences in 2012.

✓Aim: 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.