High power computer system for weather forecasts
Thanks to a high-end supercomputing systemto be put up at the India Meteorological Department and the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology offices by next month...
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Thanks to a high-end supercomputing system(HPCS) to be put up at the India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) offices by next month,the city will now have more reliable weather forecasts.
We will be installing the system in Delhi,Pune,Hyderabad and Noida. The system should be installed in Punes IMD office as well as Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) in the coming month, director general of IMD Dr Ajit Tyagi said.
The High Power Computing Systems (HPCS) is expected to run high-resolution global,regional and local numerical weather prediction models round-the-clock to ensure more accurate weather forecasts.
With the system ensuring more data capacity,it will also be used for research-oriented projects at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM). The accurate weather forecasts will enable better water resource management in the city and address water issues of the agricultural sector.
The system will also help issue better weather forecasts for the aviation sector while the IITM office is expected to take up research-oriented projects using the data, said Dr Tyagi.
The main objective of these super computers is to help generate forecast on dynamical models and give more accurate forecasts, said H R Hatwar,additional director general IMD,Pune.
The HPCS has a high speed of 14.4 tera flops and 300 tera bytes of storage capacity with a robotic retrieval system. The plan also includes integrating research related monsoon forecasting across the country in an attempt to improve predictions,he added.
Recently,the weather department issued its first monsoon forecast where it said that the average monsoon rainfall is expected to be around 98 per cent.
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