If the switch is turned on, it will rain heavily, if it is turned off, the rain will return! The country will soon see a ‘miracle’, preparations are also underway for weather GPT

Research on clouds in the cloud chamber

Secretary of the Ministry, Dr. M Ravichandran said that under this a cloud chamber will be built in IIIT Pune. Research will be done on clouds here. Many types of experiments will be done on clouds. According to the official, the base of the cloud will usually be one to one and a half kilometers away from the earth’s surface. But their height can be up to 12 to 13 kilometers. Therefore, under Mission Mausam, the country is being prepared for changes in height. In this, humidity, wind speed and temperature will be assessed. To reduce the density of clouds, efforts will be made to send more rain-bearing clouds towards areas where rainfall is decreasing.

Research will be done on shifting the clouds

The official said that the country is currently receiving normal rainfall during the monsoon season and throughout the year, but its pattern has changed. There is a plan to understand this pattern and deal with it. In its second phase, there will also be preparations to deal with the problem of lightning from clouds. In this, research will be done on shifting the lightning falling from clouds to the ground from cloud to cloud. Currently, a lot of damage is being done in the country due to lightning. In the second phase, research will also be done on dealing with the problem of smog.

Former secretary of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Madhavan Rajeevan, told our sister newspaper The Times of India (TOI) that it is a complex process. he/she said, ‘Cloud seeding and cloud modification is a complex process. We have done a lot of experiments with cloud seeding to increase rainfall, but have had limited success. But not much has been done on cloud suppression.’ he/she said that although there is scope for weather modification in India, its science is not well understood and the technology is complex.

The government announced the fund

Rajeevan said, “In my view we should start doing research in weather modification. For this we need investment.” The government has given an initial approval of Rs 2,000 crore over two years for Mission Mausam to build a more robust forecasting system to deal with extreme weather events and the effects of climate change. More funds will be allocated for it later. The key elements of the mission include deployment of next generation radar and satellite systems with advanced sensors and high performing supercomputers, development of improved Earth system models and GIS-based automated decision support systems for real-time data dissemination.