India & US Sign an Agreement to Enhance Weather and Monsoon Forecast

As a measure to enhance the monsoon data analysis and cooperation, and to improve the overall whether forecast across the region, the American bodies and India has signed an agreement.

The contract has been signed by the US Assistant Administrator for Research and acting chief scientist, Craig McLean of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and India's National Institute of Ocean Technology Director, G.A. Ramadass

As a result of this, both the bodies would augment their technical cooperation in the development of the Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction (RAMA) and the Ocean Moored buoy Network in the northern Indian ocean (OMNI) for enhancing weather and monsoon forecasts between NOAA and India’s Ministry of Earth Sciences.

The agreement is a follow up to the memorandum of understanding that was signed between the Ministry of Earth Sciences and NOAA in October 2020 for Technical Cooperation in Earth Observations and Earth Sciences.

However, the MoU has been signed by India’s Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu and Dr Neil A Jacobs, Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Acting Administrator, NOAA.