'Chaotic' science

The newly minted Mission Mausam is focusing on the research and development of technologies to improve India's understanding of ☐ localised weather forecasts.

Among other things, the mission will weather systems and finetune the ability to deliver accurate, set up lab facilities to create clouds within enclosed spaces, and experimentally determine how such clouds could be seeded with chemicals to induce rain, or prevent rain by desiccation. Apart from boosting the scientific understanding of natural processes like cloud formation and rain, hail, and ice, by artificially suppressing or enhancing weather systems, the mission has the mandate to improve weather observation. It will set up more radars, wind profilers, and radiosondes (telemetry sensors carried on weather balloons) to gather data. It will also invest in more computer resources and develop artificial intelligence (AI) tools to derive better forecasting models.