The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) organised a national-level press inetarction on Mission Mausam at Prithvi Bhavan in New Delhi. Dr M Ravichandran, Secretary, MoES, addressed the media along with Dr. Mritunjay Mohapatra, Director General of India Meteorological Department (IMD), and the Head of National Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), Dr VS Prasad.
The Union Cabinet approved Mission Mausam on September 11, 2024, with a budget outlay of 2,000 crores over two years, is an ambitious initiative of the Government of India. It aims to make India ‘Weather Ready’ and ‘Climate Smart’. The mission seeks to exponentially enhance the country’s weather and climate observations, understanding, modelling and forecasting, leading to better, more useful, accurate and timely services.
Mission Mausam has the goal of making Bharat a “Weather-ready and Climate-smart” nation, so as to mitigate the impact of climate change and extreme weather events and strengthen the resilience of the communities. Currently the Mission Mausam will be implemented during 2024-26.
The objectives of the proposed “Mission Mausam” includes:
- 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.
