India Meteorological Department

The India Meteorological Department (IMD ) is an entity belonging to the Government of India Meteorological Organization, in whose sphere of weather observations, weather forecasts and monitoring seismic activity belongs. The IMD is also the Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre for the prediction of tropical cyclones in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. It has its headquarters in the capital New Delhi.

Organization

The organization is managed by the meteorological -General, who is assisted by four assistive meteorological Directors-General in New Delhi and another in Pune. In addition, twenty deputy general directors, of which ten are located in New Delhi.

The weather service is divided into six regional centers located in Mumbai ( Bombay ), Chennai (Madras ), New Delhi, Kolkata ( Calcutta), Nagpur and Guwahati and are each headed by a Deputy Director. In every U.S. state capitals of the Weather Service maintains regional offices.

History

Once a tropical cyclone had hit directly Calcutta in 1864 and the famine of 1866 and 1871, when the monsoon had failed. the British colonial administration decided to build a meteorological organization.

H.F. Blanford was the first meteorological Rapporteur of the Indian government, and installed with 1875, the weather service. In May 1889 Sir John Eliot was appointed the first Director General of the observatory in the former capital, Calcutta. The headquarters of the Meteorological Service was later moved, first to Shimla, then to Pune and finally to New Delhi.

Tasks

The IMD observed weather patterns, transmits the data, creates weather forecasts and meets other meteorological tasks. In collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organization, IMD, the Indian National Satellite System ( INSAT ) uses for weather observation on the Indian subcontinent. The IMD was the first weather service in a developing country, which maintains its own geostationary satellite system.

The IMD is one of six Regional Specialised Meteorological responsible Centres in global Wetterúberwachungsprogramm the World Meteorological Organization and for predicting and documentation of tropical cyclones in the northern Indian Ocean. The cyclone activity encompasses the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal.

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