US to provide detailed monsoon data this year - Times of India

WASHINGTON: Removal of Indian scientific and defense institutions such as ISRO and DRDO from the US Entity list this week could result in some unexpected riches raining on India. The immediate fall-out of the thaw between the non-proliferation establishments of the two countries is that the United States will begin to transmit from this year itself detailed estimates from an enhanced monsoon forecasting model developed by its experts.

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The US and India had extensive cooperation in space before it tailed off in the 1990s and collapsed in the aftermath of the Indian nuclear test in 1998. It has resumed in fits and starts but was bedeviled by the Entity List which placed four ISRO subsidiaries on partial sanctions. The offer to provide monsoon data, details of which was not revealed, is a little ironic since Washington denied India supercomputers to be used in weather forecasting in 1988, fearing it will be used for other purposes. But in a sign that most of US proliferation concerns have eased given the geo-strategic changes, US commerce secretary Gary Locke will visit the ISRO headquarters in Bangalore during his visit to India next month to explore what the two governments can do to encourage greater cooperation in the space area. Among the items New Delhi would be interested is the cryogenic engine technology, crucial to India's advanced space missions.

US to provide detailed monsoon data this year - Times of India