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Ministry of Earth Sciences may go in for decadal forecast system
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- Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) is planning a ‘decadal forecast’ system along the lines of the United Kingdom’s Met Office to ensure better predictability in the climate time scale, said MoES Secretary recently on the sidelines of 6th International Conference on Climate Services being held at Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM).
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- Global Producing Centres:
(1) The World Meteorological Organization has set up global producing centres, coordinated by the U.K. Met Office, for annual to decadal projections that are already providing global-scale information.
(2) Once the system is established, it would initially function for long-range forecasting at the national level and the model, if successful, would later be downscaled to the state or even district-level.
- There were a number of gaps in the understanding of regional climate variability and its connections to global phenomena like Indian Ocean Dipole.
- Indian forecasters face a challenge in maintaining the quality of climate observations, and there is a need on the part of researchers to develop applications for specific sectors based on the available climate forecast.
Sources
The Hindu