Mission Mausam
About
- Mission Mausam is a central sector scheme, launched in 2024, to boost India’s weather and climate-related science, research and services.
- The Mission, to be chiefly implemented by the Ministry of Earth Sciences, envisages making the country “Weather Ready and Climate Smart” with the aim that no weather will go undetected and early warning for all.
- The mission’s focus includes improving the observations by augmenting various observational networks throughout the country, capacity building, and awareness generation.
BharatFS:
- Under the Mission Mausam, the Bharat Forecast System (BharatFS), an advanced computer simulation model, has been launched by the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
- BharatFS is the world’s highest-resolution operational weather model, operating on a 6-kilometre grid.
- Developed indigenously by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, BharatFS enhances India’s weather prediction resolution from 12 km to 6 km, enabling every village in India to access more precise and location-specific forecasts.
- It makes it the world’s first model at such a high resolution for localised forecasts.
- With this 6 km resolution, the model can capture localized weather phenomena such as thunderstorms, heavy rain spells, lightning, hailstorms and intense heatwaves which often vary sharply even within a district.