<p>New Delhi: Union Jal Shakti Minister C R Patil on Wednesday launched C-FLOOD, a web-based flood forecasting system, designed to sound an alarm at the village level up to two days in advance.</p>.<p>The system has been developed by the Central Water Commission (CWC), the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), and the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC).</p>.11 river sites across India breach flood warning levels.<p>It has been made operational under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), jointly steered by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST).</p>.<p>"This is a transformative step in India's flood management journey," Patil said.</p>.<p>The minister also directed the CWC and allied institutions to prepare a national plan for inundation studies and expand coverage to all major river basins.</p>.<p>At present, the system provides real-time flood maps and water level forecasts for the Mahanadi, Godavari, and Tapi river basins using a 2-D hydrodynamic model.</p>.<p>Forecast simulations for the Mahanadi basin are conducted on high-performance computing systems at C-DAC Pune, while outputs for the Godavari and Tapi basins are integrated from models developed by NRSC under the National Hydrology Project.</p>.<p>Patil stressed the importance of integrating the forecasts with the National Disaster Management Emergency Response Portal and improving accuracy through satellite validation and on-ground verification. </p>
<p>New Delhi: Union Jal Shakti Minister C R Patil on Wednesday launched C-FLOOD, a web-based flood forecasting system, designed to sound an alarm at the village level up to two days in advance.</p>.<p>The system has been developed by the Central Water Commission (CWC), the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), and the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC).</p>.11 river sites across India breach flood warning levels.<p>It has been made operational under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), jointly steered by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST).</p>.<p>"This is a transformative step in India's flood management journey," Patil said.</p>.<p>The minister also directed the CWC and allied institutions to prepare a national plan for inundation studies and expand coverage to all major river basins.</p>.<p>At present, the system provides real-time flood maps and water level forecasts for the Mahanadi, Godavari, and Tapi river basins using a 2-D hydrodynamic model.</p>.<p>Forecast simulations for the Mahanadi basin are conducted on high-performance computing systems at C-DAC Pune, while outputs for the Godavari and Tapi basins are integrated from models developed by NRSC under the National Hydrology Project.</p>.<p>Patil stressed the importance of integrating the forecasts with the National Disaster Management Emergency Response Portal and improving accuracy through satellite validation and on-ground verification. </p>