(The Gist of PIB) National Monsoon Mission

(THE GIST OF PIB) National Monsoon Mission

National Monsoon Mission (NMM) under the Ministry of Earth Science was launched in 2012 to develop a state-of-the-art dynamical prediction system for monsoon rainfall.
Prediction models include models for short to medium range (1-10 days), extended-range (10 days to 30 days) and seasonal.

Developing partnership between Indian and foreign institutes to develop a system for prediction of extremes.
Develop a system for climate applications having social impacts (such as agriculture, flood forecast etc.)
NMM augmentation with High-performance Computing facilities has helped in achieving a paradigm shift in weather and climate modeling for operational weather forecasts.
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune is responsible for execution and coordination of mission.
Major achievements of NMM during the last three years (phase 2) are:
Monsoon Mission dynamical model to prepare operational seasonal forecast of monsoon rainfall.
Improvement in cyclone tracking and intensity prediction.
Commissioning of a Global Ensemble Forecast System for short and medium range prediction.

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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.
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 partnerships 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.

Major achievements of NMM during the last three years are:

Setting up of an advanced prediction system for Seasonal prediction; Extended range prediction and Very high-resolution Short-range prediction.
Commissioning of a Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS) for short and medium-range prediction at 12km.