NEW DELHI: With the Commission on Air Quality Management, the central government's body on pollution in Delhi-NCR, deciding to base anti-pollution measures under the Graded Response Action Plan on predicted air quality rather than recorded air quality, scientists are updating the system to shorten the forecast time by one-third.
Scientists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) in Pune are currently engaged in increasing the accuracy of its forecasts. "Earlier a three-day forecast took 12 hours. We are working to save four hours, which means feeding the data to the model, processing and posting on the website will now be done in less time. These four hours will help expedite GRAP implementation," said Dr Sachin Ghude of IITM.
