The project is motivated by intersections of US-NOAA and India-MoES interests in weather and climate prediction over the South Asian subcontinent and the Indian Ocean basin.
Societal Impact: Provide consistent description of hydroclimate (precipitation, soil moisture, stream flow, drought indices, surface temperature) to the agricultural economies of the region.
IPCC Relevance: Facilitate climate-change detection and attribution over Asia home of two large energy-hungry economies. Circulation-hydroclimate consistent records are presently unavailable for a discriminating analysis of regional climate change.
Regional Science: Advance understanding of the dynamic and thermodynamic mechanisms that mediate local/remote forcing (aerosols, El Nino Southern Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation, etc.) and the monsoon response.
Global Teleconnections: Develop refined description of the influence of the South Asian monsoon and Indian Ocean on evolution of the El Nino Southern Oscillation and the Pacific/North American climate.
Observation-Model Bridge: Forge strong connections between Indias observational and modeling scientists, leading to improved nowcasting and forecasting of regional weather and climate.
India's National Action Plan on Climate Change recommends that regional reanalysis shall be carried out.