Development of NWP-based cyclone prediction system for improving cyclone forecast service in the country

Abstract

India Meteorological Department (IMD) operationally runs two regional model WRF and Hurricane WRF (HWRF) model for short-range prediction and Global model T574L64 for medium range prediction (7 days). As part of WMO programme to provide a guidance of tropical cyclone (TC) forecasts in near real-time for the ESCAP/WMO member countries based on the TIGGE Cyclone XML (CXML) data, IMD also implemented JMA supported software for real-time TC forecast over North Indian Ocean (NIO).