“But our research puts the country's numerical literacy to practical use. Till date, the easy-to-use Weather Research and Forecasting model remains confined to an elite group of users, such as atmospheric scientists and weather forecasters. But not any more,” added Ghosh.
India has a mobile phone subscriber base exceeding 929 million people and this is expected to touch 1.15 billion by the end of 2014.
A weather alert system developed for mobiles could reach an estimated 97 percent of the population, concluded the paper.
