India, Aug. 20 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:
Mission Mausam is currently in the beginning phase of its implementation. However, once implemented, this project will help in the overall improvement of the short and medium-range weather forecast accuracy by about 5-10 %.
Radars, satellite products, and AWS/ARG are needed mainly for nowcast or for very short duration forecasts for improving location-based forecasts of likely occurrences of thunderstorms and heavy rainfall upto 6 hours. Worldwide, for issuing heavy rainfall forecasts and associated flash floods and other types of floods, weather predictions are made using various observational systems and then by running various NWP models. Presently, IMD has a ...