India, May 24 -- India is set to become the first country in the world to possess a fully indigenously developed high-resolution global weather forecasting system.

Developed by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, the Bharat Forecasting System (BFS), also known as the High-Resolution Global Forecast Model (HGFM), operates at a 6-km resolution over global tropics (the forecasting system covers the tropical regions of the globe, which are typically located between 30 degrees South latitude and 30 degrees North latitude) compared to the current 12-km global forecast system (GFS) model used in India. Developed entirely in India, this model provides more detailed forecasts of weather events such as heavy rainfall and cyc...