Indian Ocean countries unite to improve weather forecasting [1]

Weatherzone, By: Olivia Garnett, 05/28/2013

Scientist from Indian Ocean nations have gathered in Perth today to learn about Australia's ocean forecasting models to better predict the weather. 17 countries from right around the Indian Ocean are represented at today's workshop whom all sit under umbrella of the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Corporation (IOT-ARC).

It's hoped each country can contribute their local information to one big system to help predict weather up to seven days ahead. Oceans play a huge part in weather predictions and in the past scientists have only really been able to predict very short-term weather or long-term weather on a seasonal time scale.

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