(IMD) was established in - India Meteorological Department

India Meteorological Department
16. Climate Services
IMD has dedicated networks for climatic observations and has been providing climate services for more than
a century. India specific climate related activities are :-
Climate Monitoring and Analysis Climate Data Management
Climate Research
Climate Prediction (Monthly & Seasonal Forecasts)
National Data Center (NDC) : IMD has long time series of various climate data in its archive. Data rescue and data
services are mainly provided by NDC at IMD, Pune.
National Climate Centre (NCC):
National Climate Center (NCC) is responsible for long range forecast , climate monitoring, diagnostics and
development of climate data products. It generates, many climate data products for smaller spatial and temporal
scales for the user community like (i) high resolution daily gridded rainfall & temperature, (ii) district wise daily
normal of surface met parameters and (iii) marine climate summaries for Indian Ocean region etc.
It also prepares and publishes monthly, seasonal and annual climate diagnostic bulletins for Indian region.
Long Range Forecasts : India was the first country to start operational Long Range Forecasts, since 1886 by Sir
H F Blanford. IMD issues operational long range forecasts for seasonal rainfall for winter, monsoon rainfall and
northeast monsoon rainfall. These forecasts are prepared using indigenously developed empirical models. IMD
has also implemented a dynamical prediction system based on an atmospheric GCM for monthly and seasonal
forecasts for the monsoon season. IMD also uses coupled models outputs from other centers to prepare
dynamical-empirical hybrid forecast for Southwest monsoon rainfall.
17. Human Resource Development - Capacity Building
Human Resource Development has always been one of the prime thrust areas of IMD for capacity building and to
keep pace with latest trends in various activities of the Department. Facilities for meteorological training at Pune and
New Delhi have been recognized by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) to function as Regional
Meteorological Training Centre (RMTC) in all the four main disciplines namely, General Meteorology, Upper Air
Instrumaentation, Telecommunication and Agro-meteorology.
Main Functions of Training Division
The annual mean temperature for India was +0.91 C above average, making
the year 2009 the warmest year on record since 1901.
The Central Training Institute (CTI) Pune, which is WMO’s RMTC since 1986, is the main training centre for
operational Meteorologists of IMD.
Imparts one year “Advanced meteorological training course” to the operational Meteorologists of the
neighboring countries in RA-II & V region under WMO regional co-operation programme. The same training
course is also offered to the officials of other Govt of India Organizations (Viz., Indian Navy, Indian coast guard,
etc.) and to the newly recruited IMD class-I officers.
Provides training at different levels to the IMD personnel.
Under Continuous Education and Training (CET) programme, CTI also conducts, on average 3 refresher courses
per year on the themes of topical interest.
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