New Delhi: The Union Cabinet approved “Mission Mausam” to enhance India’s ability to predict and respond to extreme weather events and the impacts of climate change. It allocated Rs 2,000 crore for its first phase, which will run until March 2026.
“Under the chairmanship of Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, The Union Cabinet approves ‘Mission Mausam’ to create a more weather-ready and climate-smart Bharat with an outlay of Rs.2,000 crore over 2 years”, noted India Meteorological Department (IMD) on X.
What Is Mission Mausam
According to the Ministry of Earth Sciences, tropical weather forecasting remains challenging due to the complexity of atmospheric processes and limitations in current observation and model resolution.
Observational data is relatively sparse, both spatially and temporally, and the horizontal resolution of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models, currently at 12 kilometres, makes it difficult to forecast small-scale weather events in India accurately, it said.
Objectives of the proposed “Mission Mausam”
- Develop Cutting Edge Weather Surveillance Technologies & Systems
- Implement Higher resolution atmospheric observations with better temporal and spatial sampling/coverage
- Implement Next-generation radars, and satellites with advanced instrument payloads
- Implement High-Performance Computers (HPC).
•Improve understanding of weather and climate processes and prediction capabilities
•Develop improved earth system models, and data-driven methods (use of AI/ML)
•Develop Technologies for weather management
•Develop state-of-art dissemination system for last mile connectivity
•Capacity building
The mission aims to establish 50 Doppler Weather Radars (DWR), 60 Radio Sonde/Radio Wind (RS/RW) stations, 100 disdrometers, 10 Wind Profilers, 25 radiometers, 1 Urban testbed, 1 Process testbed, 1 Ocean Research station and 10 Marine Automatic Weather Stations with upper air observation.
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