The center is about to open a new monsoon survey facility at a “super site” in Madhya Pradesh for the monsoon phenomenon and make increased seasonal forecasts across tropical clouds.
The Atmospheric Research Testbed-Central India (ART-CI) is taking on the 100-acre Silkheda campus in Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore district as an assignment from the Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), after battling delays due to the Covid-19 pandemic and invasion of premises on site.
“The control bench is in a unique place that falls under the central zone of the monsoon. We want to better perceive the monsoon process. We want to have all major operations in one critical location,” said Ravichandran, secretary of the Ministry of Earth Sciences. PTI on the sidelines of the Indian International Science Festival here.
At least 30 tools and sensors are expected to be installed at the site, which is situated away from the commercial activity and hustle and bustle of the city and in the direct wake of rainfall weather systems, such as low-voltage spaces and depressions emerging from the Bay. Bengal
“ART-CI is one of the super sites that will only measure monsoon rainfall, but it will also give us fundamental parameters such as the vertical profile of relative humidity, liquid water content, cloud properties and raindrop size,” said a scientist working on the project.
Instruments such as C-band dual polarization radar, Ka-band radar, micro-rain radar, weather tower, microwave radiometer, celometer, disdrometer, CCN meter, and ehalometer have already been on site.
A wind profiler, a W-band radar, a radiosonde, a LIDAR, a sky imager, a complete radiation system, a Sun/Sky radiometer are some of the tools proposed to be on site.
“Before the next monsoon (2023), the maximum number of acquired systems will be installed. Some amenities, such as wind profile radar, LIDAR, will be purchased and installed next year,” GG Pandithurai, ART-CI’s assignment manager, told PTI.
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