{"id":48287,"date":"2025-05-26T17:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T11:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=48287"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:36:59","slug":"bharat-forecasting-system-bfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bharat-forecasting-system-bfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharat Forecasting System (BFS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bharat Forecasting System Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The India Meteorological Department (IMD) will soon adopt the Bharat Forecast System (BFS), which offers the highest resolution among weather models.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>About Bharat Forecasting System\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an\u00a0<strong>indigenously built advanced weather forecasting system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was developed by the\u00a0<strong>Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It will provide\u00a0<strong>forecasts with a 6 km resolution\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 the<strong>\u00a0highest in the world\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 that would allow forecasters to predict small-scale weather features more accurately.<\/li>\n<li>This resolution is advanced in comparison to the previous 12-km Global Forecast System (GFS) used in India so far.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This<strong>\u00a0finer resolution<\/strong>\u00a0will\u00a0<strong>help in more precise predictions of localised weather events\u00a0<\/strong>like heavy rainfall and cyclones.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0<strong>powered by the Arka supercomputer.<\/strong>\u00a0This supercomputer has 11.77 petaflops (a unit to measure computer processing speed) and 33 petabytes (a petabyte is 1,000 terabytes (TB)) of storage.\n<ul>\n<li>The supercomputer is\u00a0<strong>located at IITM<\/strong>, Pune, and will massively\u00a0<strong>reduce forecasting time compared to the older Pratyush<\/strong>\u00a0supercomputer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Data from a network of 40 Doppler Weather Radars\u00a0<\/strong>from across the countrywill be\u00a0<strong>used to run the BFS<\/strong>\u00a0model that would enable the weather office to\u00a0<strong>issue more localised forecasts as well as nowcasts<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<strong>weather forecasts for the next two hours.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gradually<\/strong>, the number of\u00a0<strong>Doppler radars will increase to 100<\/strong>, which would allow the weather office to issue nowcasts across the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The BFS can\u00a0<strong>provide 6 km resolution forecasts<\/strong>\u00a0for the tropical region that falls\u00a0<strong>between 30 degrees South and 30 degrees North Latitudes<\/strong>. The Indian mainland extends between 8.4 degrees north and 37.6 degrees north latitudes.<\/li>\n<li>BFS is\u00a0<strong>primarily\u00a0<\/strong>a<strong>\u00a0numerical weather prediction (NWP) model<\/strong>, but recently\u00a0<strong>integrated AI and machine learning (ML)<\/strong>\u00a0to enhance its working.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike most of the global models,\u00a0<strong>BFS data\u00a0<\/strong>will remain\u00a0<strong>accessible to researchers worldwide,<\/strong>\u00a0fostering collaborative advancements in meteorological science.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Bharat Forecasting System FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the Bharat Forecasting System (BFS)?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0An advanced weather forecasting system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0Which institution developed the Bharat Forecasting System?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong>\u00a0What supercomputer powers the Bharat Forecasting System?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0It is powered by the Arka supercomputer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/imd-to-receive-high-resolution-bharat-forecast-system-today-10028767\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharat Forecasting System (BFS) is an advanced, indigenously developed weather forecasting system for accurate and timely weather predictions in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[587,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-48287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-bharat-forecasting-system-bfs","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48287","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}