Recon for the N. Indian Ocean?
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Recon for the N. Indian Ocean?
Interesting -- may it will help out in IMD's hideous forecasts/analyses.
Aircrafts to probe, assess cyclones in India
New Delhi: India will deploy special aircraft to probe and assess the impact of cyclones in coastal districts of the country and develop a cyclone warning system, an official said here on Thursday.
"Aircrafts can go to a cyclone prone area and make assessments like when the disaster is going to hit the land and at what speed it is going to affect the people living in the coastal areas," M S Reddy, member of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said.
Reddy was speaking at a function to release national disaster management guidelines on cyclones. Minister of Science and Technology Kapil Sibal released the guidelines.
"The commissioning of Aircraft Probing of Cyclone (APC) facility will help to fill the critical observational data gaps and significantly reduce the margin of error in predicting cyclone track, intensity and landfall (crossing of cyclones from ocean to land area)," Reddy told IANS.
He, however, said the details of the plan are being prepared.
Unveiling the guidelines, Sibal said that 241 districts of India along the coastline are cyclone prone and these guidelines will help officials, disaster management workforce and public in general to reduce both casualties and loss of property.
"Though the number of cyclones experienced in Indian coastline is comparatively less, yet one third of Indians face cyclone. We have seen the damage in Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and other states," Sibal said.
The cyclone guidelines were prepared after two years of labour. They have been formulated after a 'nine step' process taking into consultation various ministries, state governments and union territories.
The process included wide consultations with scientific and technical institutions, academics, technocrats and humanitarian organisations. The draft guidelines document was circulated to all the ministries and departments of the central and state governments and union territories for their feedback.
NDMA in its guidelines has identified 10 key areas of cyclone management like establishing of a state-of-the-art cyclone early warning system (EWS) involving observations, predictions, warnings and user-friendly advisories.
The guidelines also asked the states and other stake holders to take up structural mitigation measures like improving infrastructure, construction of multi-purpose cyclone shelters and cattle mounds, and ensuring cyclone resistant design standards in rural and urban housing schemes.
As climate change and subsequent sea level rise can wreak a lot of damage on the country, the guidelines call for setting up of an exclusive eco-system monitoring network to study the impact of climate change.
It has also advised setting up of a National Cyclone Disaster Management Institute in one of the coastal states to address all issues related to cyclone risks.
Aircrafts to probe, assess cyclones in India
New Delhi: India will deploy special aircraft to probe and assess the impact of cyclones in coastal districts of the country and develop a cyclone warning system, an official said here on Thursday.
"Aircrafts can go to a cyclone prone area and make assessments like when the disaster is going to hit the land and at what speed it is going to affect the people living in the coastal areas," M S Reddy, member of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said.
Reddy was speaking at a function to release national disaster management guidelines on cyclones. Minister of Science and Technology Kapil Sibal released the guidelines.
"The commissioning of Aircraft Probing of Cyclone (APC) facility will help to fill the critical observational data gaps and significantly reduce the margin of error in predicting cyclone track, intensity and landfall (crossing of cyclones from ocean to land area)," Reddy told IANS.
He, however, said the details of the plan are being prepared.
Unveiling the guidelines, Sibal said that 241 districts of India along the coastline are cyclone prone and these guidelines will help officials, disaster management workforce and public in general to reduce both casualties and loss of property.
"Though the number of cyclones experienced in Indian coastline is comparatively less, yet one third of Indians face cyclone. We have seen the damage in Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and other states," Sibal said.
The cyclone guidelines were prepared after two years of labour. They have been formulated after a 'nine step' process taking into consultation various ministries, state governments and union territories.
The process included wide consultations with scientific and technical institutions, academics, technocrats and humanitarian organisations. The draft guidelines document was circulated to all the ministries and departments of the central and state governments and union territories for their feedback.
NDMA in its guidelines has identified 10 key areas of cyclone management like establishing of a state-of-the-art cyclone early warning system (EWS) involving observations, predictions, warnings and user-friendly advisories.
The guidelines also asked the states and other stake holders to take up structural mitigation measures like improving infrastructure, construction of multi-purpose cyclone shelters and cattle mounds, and ensuring cyclone resistant design standards in rural and urban housing schemes.
As climate change and subsequent sea level rise can wreak a lot of damage on the country, the guidelines call for setting up of an exclusive eco-system monitoring network to study the impact of climate change.
It has also advised setting up of a National Cyclone Disaster Management Institute in one of the coastal states to address all issues related to cyclone risks.
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Derek Ortt wrote:they could start by getting competent meteorologists
I fear for the pilots safety. We could see many repeats of the Hugo flight of 1989 based upon how IMD assesses intensity
Took the words right out of my mouth. With IMD's excellence in intensity estimating, this could lead to problems.
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It really is a shame that only the Atlantic has Hurricane Hunters. Too bad the Navy doesn't fly into West Pacific Typhoons like they used to. 

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Derek Ortt wrote:AF is flying WPAC this season as a part of a field program
we are actually dropping buoys..... if there is a storm, then maybe CARCAT will task us..... its just depends on the season while we are out there.
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Chacor wrote:They won't send planes to assess cyclones that don't affect it, though.
Which would be similar to what Taiwan do. The question with this is if it would just be synoptic flights (As with Taiwan) or also flights into the centre of storms themselves (As with the USA).
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CrazyC83 wrote:Maybe they can get an agreement with Cape Verde for those storms east of 45W?
What Derek is referring to are the French Posesions in the Eastern Caribbean such as Martinique,Guadeloupe and the French part of St Marteen.
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Re: Recon for the N. Indian Ocean?
IMD's new aircraft in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZxMreSZ-Ps
Considering IMD's track record, I think it's a step in the right direction don't you? Now if they could only fix their intensity forecasts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZxMreSZ-Ps
Considering IMD's track record, I think it's a step in the right direction don't you? Now if they could only fix their intensity forecasts.
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