This article in Current Science presents the outcome of the project ‘Seasonal Prediction of the Indian Monsoon’ (SPIM), in which the prediction of Indian summer monsoon rainfall by five atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) during 1985–2004 was done. The project was a collaborative effort of the coordinators and scientists from the different modelling groups across the country. All the runs were made at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) at Bangalore on the PARAM Padma supercomputing system.
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