{"id":87418,"date":"2020-11-04T13:19:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T07:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=18324"},"modified":"2021-05-19T16:39:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T11:09:42","slug":"union-minister-releases-the-ncaer-report-on-estimating-the-economic-benefits-of-investment-in-monsoon-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-releases-the-ncaer-report-on-estimating-the-economic-benefits-of-investment-in-monsoon-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister releases the NCAER Report on &#8220;Estimating the economic benefits of Investment in Monsoon Mission\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Union Minister of Earth Sciences has released the National Council of Applied Economic Research(NCAER) report titled \u201cEstimating the economic benefits of Investment in Monsoon Mission and High Performance Computing facilities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aim: <\/strong>To use a holistic approach to estimate the incremental economic and social benefits subsequent to setting up of the \u201cMonsoon Mission\u201d and investments made in \u201cHigh-Performance Computing systems\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For every rupee spent by the government on the National Monsoon Mission and High-performance Computing programs, the country would gain economic benefits worth fifty rupees which is 50 times more benefit on the investment over the next five years period.<\/li>\n<li>76% of the livestock owners are using weather information for making decisions on modification of shelter; vaccination against seasonal disease; and fodder management. 82% of fishermen reported using Ocean State Forecast (OSF) advisories every time before venturing into sea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>National Monsoon Mission: <\/strong>It was launched by the Ministry of Earth Sciences(MoES) in 2012 with an aim to develop a state-of-the-art, dynamic monsoon prediction system for short, medium and long-range forecasts.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Implementation: <\/strong>The responsibility of execution of the mission is bestowed upon the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM),Pune.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>High Performance Computing(HPC) facilities <\/strong>at MoES institutes has brought in a paradigm shift in weather and climate modelling activity for operational weather forecasts.The HPC facilities established at two of the MoES institutes are:\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<strong>Pratyush<\/strong>\u201d at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology(IITM),Pune with computing capacity of 4 peta-flops and<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>Mihir<\/strong>\u201d at National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast (NCMRWF), Noida with a computing capacity of 2.8 peta-flops.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Agro-climatic zones: <\/strong>It refers to a geographical area with similar soil type, rainfall, temperature and water availability.India is divided into 15 major agro-climatic zones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Union Minister of Earth Sciences has released the National Council of Applied Economic Research(NCAER) report titled \u201cEstimating the economic benefits of Investment in Monsoon Mission and High Performance Computing facilities\u201d. &nbsp; Facts: Aim: To use a holistic approach to estimate the incremental economic and social benefits subsequent to setting up of the \u201cMonsoon Mission\u201d&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-releases-the-ncaer-report-on-estimating-the-economic-benefits-of-investment-in-monsoon-mission\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Union Minister releases the NCAER Report on &#8220;Estimating the economic benefits of Investment in Monsoon Mission\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[5174,5175],"class_list":["post-87418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-national-monsoon-mission","tag-ncaer-report","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704670447},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}