Under the National Monsoon Mission, the Ministry of Earth Sciences has developed 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).
- The models developed under the National Monsoon Mission (NMM) have shown very high skill in predicting important weather events on different time scales during the last 3years.
- The mission was launched in 2012 and its first phase lasted till 2017.
- Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune is the main body responsible for the execution and coordination of the mission. Hence statement 2 is correct.
- The overall objective of NMM is to improve the monsoon prediction over India on all time scales and hence it is implemented for the whole country which includes all the States and UTs.
Targets of the Monsoon Mission:
- Development of a seamless prediction system using a monsoon mission model, on different time scales, like Seasonal (for the whole Monsoon season), Extended range (up to 4 weeks), and Short-range prediction (up to 5days).
- Initiate and coordinate the working partnerships between Indian and foreign institutes to develop a system for the prediction of extremes and climate applications
- Develop and implement systems for climate applications having social impacts (such as agriculture, flood forecast, extreme events forecast, wind energy, etc.)
