The India Meteorological Department (IMD) is planning to use synthetic intelligence in weather forecasting, particularly for issuing now-casts, which may help improve 3-6 hours prediction of maximum weather occasions, its Director General Mrutunjay Mohapatra stated on Sunday. He stated the use of synthetic intelligence and machine studying is just not as prevalent as it’s in different fields and it’s comparatively new within the space of weather forecasting.

The IMD has invited analysis teams who can research how synthetic intelligence (AI) be used for bettering weather forecasting and the Ministry of Earth Sciences is evaluating their proposals, Mohapatra stated.

He stated the IMD can also be planning to do collaborative research on this with different establishments.

The IMD makes use of totally different instruments like radars, satellite tv for pc imagery, to subject now-casts, which provides data on excessive weather occasions occurring within the subsequent 3-6 hours.

The IMD points forecasts for excessive weather occasions like thunderstorms, mud storms. Unlike cyclones, predictions of thunderstorms, which additionally convey lightning, squall and heavy rains, are tougher as the acute weather occasions develop and dissipate in a really quick time frame.

Last month, over 160 folks died due to lightning alone in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

The IMD needs to higher the now cast predictions by AI and machine studying.

“Artificial intelligence helps in understanding past weather models and this can make decision-making faster,” Mohapatra stated.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the US introduced new methods this yr to increase the company’s utility of 4 rising science and expertise focus areas — NOAA Unmanned Systems, synthetic intelligence, Omics, and the cloud — to information trans-formative developments within the high quality and timeliness of NOAA science, services.

Omics is a collection of superior strategies used to analyse materials corresponding to DNA, RNA, or proteins.

With regards to AI, it stated the overarching aim of the NOAA Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy is to utilise AI to advance NOAA’s requirements-driven mission priorities.

The NOAA stated by this, it seeks to cut back the price of information processing, and supply increased high quality and extra well timed scientific services for societal advantages.