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India Meteorological Department
1. Weather Forecasting Services
The National Weather Forecasting Centre (NWFC) has been set up at Mausam Bhawan, Delhi to bring all types of
forecasting services of IMD under one umbrella. It provides forecast guidance to six Regional Meteorological
Centres (RMCs) and State Meteorological Centres (MCs).
Salient Features of NWFC
Real time reception and assimilation of multi
sensor observations.
Seamless software tools for various meteorology,
climatology and public weather service
applications.
An integrated and fully automated forecasting
environment
Synoptic method is overlaid on numerical models
supported by modern graphical and GIS
applications to produce high quality analyses &
forecasts and automated dissemination of forecast
and warning.
Backup support of NWFC at IMD, Pune in the
office of DDGM(Weather and Forecasting)
National Weather Forecasting Centre (NWFC)
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/
Regional Meteorological Centres (RMCs)
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/
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