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November 5 , 2024
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- The Mission Mausam, launched by the government last month, aims to not just improve weather forecasting in the country.
- India is also establishing a first-of-its-kind cloud chamber at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune.
- A cloud chamber resembles a closed cylindrical or tubular drum, inside which water vapour, aerosols, etc. are injected.
- Under the desired humidity and temperature inside this chamber, a cloud can develop.
- This facility will allow scientists to study the seed particles that form cloud droplets or ice particles in a sustained manner.
- India is building a cloud chamber with convection properties, as required to study Indian monsoon clouds.
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