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To Improve Prediction Skill of                     Monsoon Weather and Climate

Earth System Science Orgnization, Ministry of Earth Science
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India  

Data Availability for Research Purpose

Single point of contact for data monsoon_mission@tropmet.res.in
Other required fields (for research purpose only) can be made available as per request

Data Variable Period of the data Frequency of Data Expt. Name/Model Used Reference Remarks
GRL_paper_eddy 1993-2022 final files GFS1534/MMCFS2 - final output files and scripts
JGR1 2023 Parcel DNS Monsoon Bhowmik Etal
MANUS2 2023 - CFSV2 Monsoon Bhowmik Etal -
Hindcast DATA 1999-2019 As per analysis Model Used IWCA CFSv2 February hindcast Sreenivas et al (2020) IWCA CFSv2 T126
Rainfall,SST and Zonal wind DATA 1981 - 2017 Yearly CFS February and April hindcasts. Ramu et al (2016),  Pillai et al (2017) CFS V2 T382
Precipitation and Sea surface temperature 1981 - 2008 Monthly Seaonal Hindcast experiment with Jan. to Dec IC (upto 9 months) /CFS V2 T382L64 Feb. IC data is available online at 
Feb IC Precipitation,Feb IC SST
Ramu et al (2016),  Pillai et al (2017) CFS V2 T382,  
CFS V2 T126
SST/SSS/SLA/
Temperature/
Salinity/Currents (zonal and meridional)
2004 to present Monthly/5day/daily and Monthly climatology Ocean Analysis based on INCOIS-GODAS Ravichandran et al (2012) GODAS
All relevant atmospheric variables 2000-2015 6 hourly Global retrospective analysis using NGFS for the period 2000▒2011. Prasad et al. (2017) , current science 6 hourly
All relevant atmospheric variables 1979-2017 6 hourly IMDAA Regional Reanalysis Mahmood et al., 2018, ASL (submitted) Resolution 12 km To be completed by April 2018
Soil moisture and soil temperature 1981-2017 3 hourly High resolution land data assimilated analysis. Nayak, H. P. et al. Made available on request to MM Directorate(freely available)
MISO Index DATA 1998-2019 Daily (May to Oct) Extended EOF Analysis Sahai et al 2013  

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About Monsoon Mission

The Indian summer (southwest) monsoon is referred as lifeline of India, as ariability in any of its aspects (onset, withdrawal and quantum of rainfall) greatly influences the agriculture yield, economy, water resources, power generation and ecosystem. Hence, if the variations in monsoon rainfall are known well in advance, it would be possible to reduce the adverse impacts related to excess or deficient rainfall, providing us prior information about droughts and floods. The accurate prediction of monsoon rainfall is a basic need for the nation but remained a challenge over the decades. The long range prediction of the seasonal mean monsoon rainfall depends on dynamics of its year-to-year variations. Recent improvements in dynamical numerical models with ocean-atmosphere coupling can be useful for improvement of the monsoon forecast skill through a collective effort.

Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India has launched 'National Monsoon Mission' (NMM) with a vision to develop a state-of-the-art dynamical prediction system for monsoon rainfall on different time scales. MoES has bestowed the responsibility of execution and coordination of this mission to the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune. For this national mission, IITM is collaborating with NCEP (USA), MoES organisations and various academic institutions/organizations under NMM. Climate Forecast System (CFS) of NCEP, USA has been identified as the basic modelling system for the above purpose, as it is one of the best among the currently available coupled models. However, it has a moderate skill for retrospective forecast (hindcast) of seasonal monsoon rainfall and this skill needs to be improved to make the forecasts more useful. Thus, there is an urgent need to develop an Indian model based on CFS coupled model with an improved hindcast skill so that it can be transferred to the India Meteorological Department for operational forecasting. With this objective, To accomplish this task, MoES/IITM invited proposals from national and international scientists/organizations.


Base Models to be used

The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) has considered to use the following numerical models : (i) The American model called ▒Climate Forecast System▒ (CFS) developed by National Centres for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), NOAA National Weather Service, USA. CFS is a coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling system that combine data from ocean, atmosphere and land for providing long range forecasting (seasonal prediction of Indian Monsoon); [ Model developments on CFS will be implemented by IITM, with atmospheric initial conditions from NCMRWF and Ocean initial conditions from INCOIS] and (ii) The Unified Model (UM), developed by the United Kingdom Meteorological Office (UKMO), UK. This model will be utilized for short to medium range prediction [and the Model developments on UKMO will be implemented by NCMRWF, in association with IMD.]

Need for NMM

El Nino and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) being a dominant mode of global inter-annual variability and due to its vast influence on other regional climates, in last few decades researchers have made large number of studies on the ENSO phenomena and its various impacts using atmospheric and ocean-atmosphere coupled general circulation models. In recent decades, dynamical numerical models have considerably improved and most of the global coupled models have shown good prediction skill of ENSO SST with six months lead time. The seasonal mean rainfall hindcast skill, at one season lead time, over the central Pacific is also very good. This has been possible due to a concerted effort by a group of devoted scientists. However, not much breakthrough has taken place in improving the prediction skill of Indian summer monsoon rainfall, even though it was expected as a prominent heat source over Indian region during summer monsoon period that drives the major atmospheric circulations.

Monsoon Mission Directorate

NAME Designation
Dr. R Krishnan Director, IITM & Monsoon Mission Director
Dr. Suryachandra Rao Scientist - G, Associate Mission Director
& Project Director, Monsoon Mission
Prof. S.S.V.S. Ramakrishna Project Manager
Mr. Aniket M. Kanade Computer Application Support Scientist
Mr. Krunal D. Kamble Upper Division Clerk
Mr. Vikas D. Dhindle Upper Division Clerk
Address

Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan,
Pune 411 008
Maharashtra
India

Contacts

Mail:
monsoon_mission@tropmet.res.in

Phone: +91-20-2590-4424
Fax : +91-20-2586-5142

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