{"id":20303,"date":"2024-02-10T11:04:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T05:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20303"},"modified":"2025-04-06T00:26:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T18:56:52","slug":"earth-system-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/earth-system-model\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Earth System Model?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Earth System Model<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is\u00a0open-source software that is designed to integrate the interactions of\u00a0atmosphere,\u00a0ocean, land, ice, and biosphere to estimate the state of\u00a0regional and global climate under a wide variety of conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Since it is based on numerical weather prediction and data assimilation, it can be used for\u00a0accurate climate change predictions.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology along with the\u00a0Centre for Climate Change Research\u00a0(CCCR), is developing this first-for-India Earth System Model.<\/li>\n<li>Purpose: To improve its forecasts, facilitate long-term climate studies, and predict climate impacts in the coming years.<\/li>\n<li>IITM-ESM incorporates earth system components in the Climate Forecast System (CFS) from National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP, USA), and transforms the CFS seasonal prediction model to a long-term climate mode,<\/li>\n<li>Funding: An amount of \u20b9192.28 crores has been sanctioned under the\u00a0Monsoon Convection, Clouds and Climate Change (MC4)\u00a0sub scheme to develop the climate forecasting system.<\/li>\n<li>The work on the model is currently underway and is expected to be completed by 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Monsoon Convection, Clouds and Climate Change (MC4)\u00a0sub scheme<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was envisioned to improve the\u00a0observational database and climate models for enhanced predictive understanding of monsoonal precipitation changes and their impacts in a warming environment.<\/li>\n<li>The overarching goal of MC4 is to describe better and quantify interactions among monsoon dynamics, clouds, aerosols, precipitation, and the water cycle in a changing climate.<\/li>\n<li>Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Open source software?<\/h3>\n<p>It is software that is distributed with its source code, making it available for use, modification, and distribution with its original rights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/india-developing-a-new-earth-system-model-to-improve-forecasts-track-climate-crisis-impacts-101707502925985.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India developing a new Earth system model to improve forecasts, track climate crisis impacts<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth System Model is open-source software that is designed to integrate the interactions of atmosphere, ocean, land, ice, and biosphere to estimate the state of regional and global climate under a wide variety of conditions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}