Scientists at CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute (C-MMACS), Bangalore India, who work on discoveries in various fields, are introducing a weather-forecast module soon.
This high-resolution module promises to predict diseases likely to come up in future, well in advance.
Currently in the validation stage, scientists want to scale up the module before formal introduction of the system.
Recent advances in meteorological monitoring and weather forecasting, integrated with components like Geoghraphic Information Systems (GIS), have gone into the making of this forecasting module.
On Wednesday, an interactive workshop under a project by UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) – Integrating disease prediction with weather and climate models seamlessly (Indrass) – was held to identify stakeholders can take this model to various outreach organizations.
“Through very high-resolution techniques, we forecast weather a few months in advance. This, in turn, gives a clear indication of the diseases climatic changes can cause, so respective state governments can take preventive measures,” P Goswami, chief scientist at CSIR C-MMACS, Bengaluru, stated.
