IMO & IMD
- 2. World Meteorological Organization Meteorology 2 Meteorology, branch of science that deals with the atmosphere of a planet, particularly that of the earth, the most important application of which is the analysis and prediction of weather.
- 3. IMD • Met Department • Ministry of Earth Sciences • meteorological observations, weather forecasting and seismology. •IMD is also one of the six Regional Specialised Meteorological Centres.
- 4. Brief Introduction of the India Meteorological Department ❖ IMD is established in 1875 & is a National Meteorological Service of the India. ❖ Headquarter of IMD is at New Delhi with six Regional Head Quarters. ❖ Provides vital weather services to public & all sectors including monsoon for common man, farmers, etc. by Railways, Defence services & other scientific research Organizations.
- 6. Global Requirement & Role of IMD IMD is functioning due to Global requirement under World Meteorological Organization (WMO). WMO forms the policies which are implemented by all the member nations. India is one amongst them. Weather services are meant for mankind and hence Government of the respective nations are responsible for implementation of its orders, recording of real time data, global exchange of real time data, validation and archival of the data. This data is national scientific treasure which has to be stored and used for development.
- 8. SERVICES PROVIDED BY IMD TO NATION Weather Services to Agriculture Forecasting services to he national and international civil aviation sector. WMO recognized training services to staff, public & foreign trainees. Positional Astronomy Services. Services for Shipping and Fisheries. Climatological Services Environmental Meteorology. Hydrometeorology & Flood Forecasting.
- 9. IMD’s division dealing with specialized subjects Agricultural Meteorology Civil Aviation Climatology Hydrometeorology Instrumentation Meteorological Telecommunication Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre Positional Astronomy Satellite Meteorology Seismology Training IMD’s Meteorological Networks Meteorological Telecommunication network Surface Observatory Network. IMD’s Radar network Ozone Monitoring Network Radiation Observatories Voluntary Observing Ships (VOFs). INOSHAC: - Indian Ocean and Southern Hemisphere Centre. Air Pollution Monitoring NWP System
- 10. Organizational structure of IMD
- 11. Organisation • Dr. K. J. Ramesh is Director General of Meteorology • Meteorological Centres • Henry Francis Blanford was appointed as Meteorological Reporter.
- 12. Cyclone warning services in India(Cyclone distress Mitigration committee)
- 13. Surface Met instrument Thermograph and hygrograph instruments
- 16. Marine Met
- 18. Flood management
- 19. Observation
- 20. Data exchange & tech-transfer
- 22. Aviation Met
- 24. •It originated from the International Meteorological Organization (IMO), which was founded in 1873. • WMO .
- 26. FUNCTIONS National Meteorological and Hydrological Services work around the clock to provide vital weather and climate information worldwide.
- 27. Data exchange and technology transfer Powerful computers inWMO centres worldwide process the data collected from tens of thousands of land and sea observation instruments and Earth-observing satellites.
- 28. Observations Currently, well over 10 000 manned and automatic surface weather stations, 1 000 upper-air stations, 7 000 ships, 100 moored and 1 000 drifting buoys, hundreds of weather radars and 3 000 specially equipped commercial aircraft measure key parameters of the atmosphere, land and ocean surface every day.