The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, approved the National Monsoon Mission which would implement the dynamic prediction system of monsoon forecasts.
Currently, India Meteorological Department relies heavily on the Ensemble Statistical Forecasting system for the long range forecast of monsoon.
The National Monsoon Mission, which has a budget of Rs 400 crore over a five-year period, will build partnerships between academic and research institutions to improve operational forecast skills.
The Mission will also set up a state of the art dynamic modelling framework for improving the prediction skill of seasonal and extended range prediction system (16 days to one season) and short to medium range prediction system (up to 15 days).
"The forecasts based on this prediction system will cater to the needs of various sectors like agriculture, water resources management, power generation, disaster management, tourism and transport," an official release said.
The present statistical methods being used by the IMD have some constraints to meet specific user requirements for forecasts on finer spatial and temporal scale, officials said.
"Therefore, it is necessary to make use of the state of the art dynamic models to improve monsoon prediction skills, they said. (MORE) PTI SKU
