The Indian Climate Research Programme (ICRP), as formulated in its Science Plan, is a multi-agency endeavour focused on the following major objectives:
Understanding the physical processes responsible for variability on sub-seasonal, interannual, decadal and longer time scales of the monsoon, the oceans of the region and the coupled ocean atmospheric system adopting the following approval.
Analysis of existing observations over land and oceans from conventional and space-based platforms.
Development and deployment of new observational techniques.
Special observational experiments over critical regions.
Development and investigation of a hierarchy of models of the atmosphere, ocean and the coupled system.
Study of the space-time variation of the monsoon from sub-seasonal, interannual to decadal scales for assessing the feasibility for climate prediction and development of methods for prediction.
Study of change in climate and its variability on centennial and longer time scales generated by natural and anthropogenic factors.
Investigation of the links between climate variability and critical resources such as agricultural productivity to provide a basis for deriving agricultural strategies for maximizing the sustainable yield in the face of climate variability, and for realistic assessment of impact of climate change.
ICRP addresses the above foci in three components:
Monsoon Variability (MONVAR)
Past Climates and Climate Change (PCCC)
Climate and Agriculture (CLIMAG)
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