A deep borehole up to a distance of three kms would be
drilled in the Laxmi Basin, Arabian Sea, in 2015 to get information about the
origin of the monsoon, said Dr Shailesh Nayak, secretary, Ministry of Earth
Sciences. He was speaking at the at the inaugural function of four-day
International Tropical Meteorology Symposium on Monsoons-Observations,
Prediction and Simulation (MOPS) organized by the SRM University
Kattankulathur.
“Under the Indian Ocean Deep Drilling Program, we will be
drilling a deep borehole that is
expected to provide information about the origin of the monsoon as well as its
variability in the past,’’ he said.
Since the variability of Indian Summer Monsoons was critical
to agriculture, water resources and economy of the country, he said that
understanding the variability of monsoon and prediction was vital for the
well-being of the population of India. “We have made significant progress in
improving the five-day forecast, the accuracy of which has been around 70-75
per cent,” he said.‘’There was lot of media attention about Uttarakhand floods. The specific forecast for Kedarnath, Badrinath, Joshimath, Gangotri and Jamanotri was provided to all concerned before three days,’’ he pointed out. This was apart from the good forcast of Phailin Cyclone, Mahasen, Helen, Lehar and Madi cyclones
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