New Delhi: India has announced its intention to launch a multi-year, multi-phase research effort to explore technologies for weather modification seeking to mitigate the impacts of extreme weather events such as cloudbursts, droughts, fog, or hailstorms.
The research initiative on weather modification will be part of a new scientific mission that will also seek to bolster weather surveillance infrastructure and enhance the reliability of forecasts, Union Earth Science Ministry officials and scientists have said.
The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister has approved the mission, with an outlay of Rs.2,000 crore over two years.
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(a) the India Meteorological Department,
(b) the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology and
(c) the National Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting.
(a) deployment of next-generation radars and satellite systems with advanced sensors
(b) high-performance supercomputers, the development of enhanced Earth system models
(c) GIS-based automated decision support system for real-time data sharing
Engineering rains through cloud-seeding exercises has been tried out in several countries, including in India, with varying degrees of success.
Over the next 18 months (by 2026), the numbers of Doppler radars, wind profilers, radiometers and radio sonde will be increased by many folds. All these are essential tools and infrastructure used for recording weather data from across the surface, atmosphere and oceans.
Cloud seeding is a kind of weather modification technology to create artificial rainfall. It works only when there are enough pre-existing clouds in the atmosphere.
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