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Govt to develop Mausam GPT in 5 years to share weather information | India News – Times of India
NEW DELHI: Indian weather scientists hope to have enough knowledge in the next five years to not only increase rainfall but also suppress it, along with hail and lightning, in certain places as desired.
This means that if Delhi or any other city wants to suppress rain during, say, I-Day celebrations, scientists can do so through interventions. Similarly, rain/hail can be suppressed in cities during floods. “We want to start with experimental artificial rain suppression and enhancement. Lab simulations will be done in the next 18 months, but we will definitely go for artificial weather change “On the scale of five years,” M. Ravichandran, secretary, ministry of earth sciences (MoES), said on Thursday, elaborating on Mission Mausam, which received cabinet approval a day earlier.
When asked if the rainfall in Delhi on August 15 (Independence Day) could be controlled, Ravichandran said, “We can think about it (through weather modification).”
Under the mandate of Mission Mausam, scientists will also work on incremental improvement of weather forecasting systems in the country in terms of further increasing forecast accuracy by 5-10%. Under the mission, which aims to make India climate-smart and weather-ready by not letting any weather phenomenon, including even cloud bursts, go unnoticed, India Meteorological Department (IMD) along with other scientific institutions of MoES will also ‘Mausam GPT‘, a chatGPT-like application that will allow users to quickly obtain written and audio weather information in the next five years.
Rain suppression and enhancement techniques are already being used through cloud seeding, using aircraft, in a limited way in the US, Canada, China, Russia and Australia, among others. There are sowing clouds projects, called overseeding, were aimed at reducing hail to prevent damage to fruit orchards and grain fields in some of these countries.
“Cloud seeding and cloud modification is a complex process. We have done a lot of experiments on cloud seeding to enhance rainfall with limited success. But not much has been done on cloud suppression,” Madhavan Rajeevan, former MoES secretary, told TOI. He said that while there is a potential for weather modification in India, the science is not well understood and the technology is complex. “In my opinion, we need to start researching weather modification and we need investment,” Rajeevan said.
The government has initially approved Rs 20 billion over two years for Mission Mausam to create a more robust forecasting system to deal with the impact of extreme weather conditions And Climate changeMore funds will be made available for this later.
India is already experimenting with artificial rain techniques and has implemented a number of pilot projects in Maharashtra and elsewhere.
This means that if Delhi or any other city wants to suppress rain during, say, I-Day celebrations, scientists can do so through interventions. Similarly, rain/hail can be suppressed in cities during floods. “We want to start with experimental artificial rain suppression and enhancement. Lab simulations will be done in the next 18 months, but we will definitely go for artificial weather change “On the scale of five years,” M. Ravichandran, secretary, ministry of earth sciences (MoES), said on Thursday, elaborating on Mission Mausam, which received cabinet approval a day earlier.
When asked if the rainfall in Delhi on August 15 (Independence Day) could be controlled, Ravichandran said, “We can think about it (through weather modification).”
Under the mandate of Mission Mausam, scientists will also work on incremental improvement of weather forecasting systems in the country in terms of further increasing forecast accuracy by 5-10%. Under the mission, which aims to make India climate-smart and weather-ready by not letting any weather phenomenon, including even cloud bursts, go unnoticed, India Meteorological Department (IMD) along with other scientific institutions of MoES will also ‘Mausam GPT‘, a chatGPT-like application that will allow users to quickly obtain written and audio weather information in the next five years.
“Cloud seeding and cloud modification is a complex process. We have done a lot of experiments on cloud seeding to enhance rainfall with limited success. But not much has been done on cloud suppression,” Madhavan Rajeevan, former MoES secretary, told TOI. He said that while there is a potential for weather modification in India, the science is not well understood and the technology is complex. “In my opinion, we need to start researching weather modification and we need investment,” Rajeevan said.
The government has initially approved Rs 20 billion over two years for Mission Mausam to create a more robust forecasting system to deal with the impact of extreme weather conditions And Climate changeMore funds will be made available for this later.
India is already experimenting with artificial rain techniques and has implemented a number of pilot projects in Maharashtra and elsewhere.
