The Union Cabinet's approved Central Sector Scheme Mission Mausam aims to enhance weather and climate prediction accuracy, strengthening disaster management in Assam.
In 2024, the Union Cabinet approved the Central Sector Scheme Mission Mausam with a vision to make Bharat a 'Weather-ready and Climate-smart' nation. This includes Assam. The mission aims to enhance the accuracy and spatial resolution of weather and climate predictions by strengthening the observational network, advancing high-resolution numerical weather prediction models, high-performance computing technologies, and improving the last-mile dissemination of weather and climate, including timely early warnings for various extreme weather events.
The Central Water Commission (CWC) under the Ministry of Jal Shakti (MoJS) is mandated to issue short-range flood forecasts, with a lead time of up to 24 hours, to concerned State Governments at identified locations, including Himalayan States like Assam. CWC maintains 32 flood forecast stations in the Brahmaputra River & its tributaries, and the Barak River & its tributaries in Assam.
India Meteorological Department (IMD), under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, utilizes an array of numerical weather prediction models, including 6 physical models and 3 artificial intelligence-based models. The decision on weather forecasting is made using a multi-model ensemble technique and the Multi-Hazard Early Warning Decision Support System (MHEW-DSS). At present, CWC has developed AI/ML-based models for 12 Level Forecast stations (for short-range forecasts), of which 8 are in the Brahmaputra basin in Assam.
State and Union Territory (UT)-level weather services across the country, including Assam, are provided through a network of 8 Regional Meteorological Centres (RMCs) and 25 Meteorological Centres (MCs), under the IMD, Ministry of Earth Sciences. In particular, the RMC Guwahati serves Assam and other NE Regions of the country. In addition, the MC Gangtok is located in Sikkim and serves Assam.
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