• A team from Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru and UK based University of East Anglia have created a blueprint for accurate prediction of monsoon, tropical cyclones and other weather related forecast.

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• The Bay of Bengal Boundary Layer Experiment or BoBBLE in short is a project funded by Union Ministry of Earth Sciences and the Natural Environment Research Council of UK.

• A media release issued by the Institute in Bengaluru says that researchers from number of other institutions of repute from Kerala, Goa, Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad were part of the project.

• The team carried out studies of oceanographic properties on board RV Sindhu Sadhana in the southern Bay of Bengal. After which a blueprint for future weather system observational experiments was created for accurately forecasting rainfall.