New Approach by IMD for Safer Indiaby

Mr. S ViswanadhamFormer Director Regional Meteorological Center Nagpur

Web based Forecast Services • Weather forecast, meteorological information,

warnings, normal etc. are provided through IMD Head Quarters at Delhi and various offices of IMD.– IMD HQ - http://www.imd.gov.in/

- http://www.mausam.gov.in/– IMD Pune - http://www.imdpune.gov.in/– IMD Delhi - http:// www.amssdelhi.gov.in– IMD Mumbai - http://www.imdmumbai.gov.in/– IMD Chennai - http://www.imdchennai.gov.in/– IMD Kolkata - http://www.imdkolkata.gov.in/– IMD Guwahati - http://www.imdguwahati.gov.in/– IMD Nagpur - http://www.imdnagpur.gov.in/

Meteorological Telecommunication

• Telecommunication Division of IMD provides the support function needed for meteorological data and processed products to the users, both on national and international level. Since its inception in 1969, IMD maintains an extensive telecommunication network for speedy collection of meteorological information, both basic data and processed products, all over the globe. The main telecommunication hub of the IMD's telecommunication network is located at New Delhi. It is now termed the National Meteorological Telecommunication Centre (NMTC).

Public Weather System (PWS)

• Metofactory - it allows IMD to deliver automatically to their end-users the meteorological products and services they need in the right format and at the right time

• TV System -To communicate the forecast and the weather situation to public

• Visumet - A user friendly graphical format display system for displaying different weather phenomenon, forecast, satellite, Radar images etc.

Modernization of Cyclone Warning Dissemination System

Hydro-meteorological Services• Hydromet division caters to the need of hydromet

inputs particularly of Water Resources Development and Water Related Disaster (like floods and drought) monitoring / management and it provides services in the following fields of – Rainfall Monitoring; – Hydro met Forecasting (QPF); – Hydro met Design; – Glaciology; – National and International Co-operation – Public Awareness.

Drought Monitoring

Environmental Monitoring Services• The Environmental Meteorology Unit of IMD was set up at

New Delhi under an agency of the Ministry of Environment & Forests. The unit is now renamed as Environmental Monitoring Research Center (EMRC) in IMD. It provides specific services to this Ministry and other Government agencies for the assessment of pollution impacts from various industries and thermal power plants. Atmospheric dispersion models are employed for prediction of air quality, under different terrain and meteorological conditions. These studies facilitate decisions regarding siting of industries and adoption of control strategies. Measurements comprise of :– Precipitation Chemistry (Acid rain threats)– Atmospheric turbidity– Radiation– Sunshine Duration– Evaporation– Ozone (Surface & total)– Antarctica Ozone

Seismological Services

Earthquake Risk Evaluation Center (EREC)

• Earthquake Risk Evaluation Center (EREC) was established in February 2004, as a multidisciplinary Center to provide purposive turning point to guide national endeavor in mitigating the disastrous impacts of earthquakes and undertake/promote specific tasks related to Earthquake Hazard Evaluation and Risk Assessment.

• In this context 'Seismic Hazard and Risk Microzonation' (SHRM) provides an important tool. EREC has completed the Seismic Hazard Microzonation of NCT Delhi on 1:50,000 scale and

• EREC has also collaborated in the Seismic Hazard Microzonation of Jabalpur, Guwahati and Bangalore.

For further details kindly contactOffice of Director General of Meteorology,

India Meteorological DepartmentMausam Bhawan, Lodi Road,

New Delhi - 110003Toll Free No. 1800 180 1717

Visit the web sitehttp://www.imd.gov.in or

http: // www.mausam.gov.in

Thank You