India Includes Pakistan Occupied Kashmir In Weather Forecasts – Free PDF

IMD

• The India Meteorological Department (IMD) is an agency of the Ministry of Earth Sciences of the Government of India.
• It is the principal organization responsible for meteorological observations, weather forecasting and seismology.
• IMD is headquartered in Delhi and operates hundreds of observation stations across India and Antarctica.

ANTARCTICA STATION -MAITRI

• The station has modern facilities to research in various disciplines, such as biology, earth sciences, glaciology, atmospheric sciences, meteorology, cold region engineering, communication, human physiology, and medicine.

SATELLITES

• India has many satellites that are used for weather forecasting.
• Some satellites have been launched with friendly countries as well. For example –
• The Megha-Tropiques, a joint venture of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and its French counterpart, Centre National d’EtudesSpaciales,

RESPONSIBILITY

• IMD is also one of the six Regional Specialised Meteorological Centres of the World Meteorological Organization.

REGIONAL SPECIALISED METEOROLOGICAL CENTRES

• The United States National Hurricane Center(NHC/RSMC Miami) is responsible for the tracking of tropical cyclones within the Atlantic Ocean and Eastern Pacific basins.
• The United States Central Pacific Hurricane Center(CPHC/RSMC Honolulu) provides satellite fixes for the Western Pacific and Southern Pacific basins and tropical cyclone warnings for the Central Pacific basin and in the Eastern Pacific basin if the NHC is too busy with the Atlantic basin or is incapacitated in any way.

REGIONAL SPECIALISED METEOROLOGICAL CENTRES

• The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA/RSMC Tokyo) is responsible for issuing advisories within the Western Pacific basin.
• The India Meteorological Department (IMD/RSMC New Delhi) is responsible for tracking tropical cyclones within the North Indian Ocean.

ASIA RSMC

• Beijing, China RSMC —For Asia
• New Delhi, India RSMC -For Asia
• Obninsk, Russia RSMC —For Asia
• Tokyo, Japan RSMC —For Asia

RSMC

• Météo-France La Reunion (MFR/RSMC La Reunion) is responsible for the issuing advisories and tracking of tropical cyclones.
• Within the Australian region five tropical cyclone warning centres are responsible for the naming and tracking of tropical cyclones. Three of these centres are run by and located within the Australian Bureau of Meteorology regional offices in Perth, Darwin and Brisbane and use one national list of names. The other two tropical cyclone warning centres in the Australian region are located in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea and Jakarta, Indonesia.
• Within the Southern Pacific the Fiji Meteorological Service (FMS, RSMC Nadi) is responsible for the naming of tropical cyclones for the whole basin, however, the Meteorological Service of New Zealand (MetService, TCWC Wellington) issues forecasts for the area below 25°S.
• The Indian Meteorological Department forecasted weather conditions in towns such as Muzaffarabad, Skardu, Nilamregions located in Gilgit-Baltistan. This is the first time when IMD has started predicting the weather for these areas under the north-west subdivision. The first such weather forecast for Gilgit was uploaded on May 6.

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