Meteorological Office, Pune
IMD's Research Activities
The Department, as well as its scientists in their individual capacity, have contributed substantially to knowledge in the field of meteorology ever since the inception of the Department. Research in Meteorology is one of the basic functions of the Department. The Parameters and Power Regression Model developed by IMD for long-range forecast of southwest monsoon rainfall over India has successfully proved to be a good tool to provide reliable long-range forecasts of monsoon rainfall. Apart from the research work done by the various units of the Office of the Additional Director General of Meteorology (Research) at Pune, many other divisions of the Department are also actively engaged in carrying out the research activities. Some of the main research and development activities currently in progress are given below :
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All aspects of thunderstorms, local severe storms, tropical cyclones and monsoons.
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Rainfall data analysis and quantitative precipitation forecast.
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NWP and Data Processing
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Satellite and Radar Meteorology.
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Synoptic Climatology.
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Long Range Forecasting.
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Synoptic study of droughts, dry land farming and crop-weather relationships.
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Air Pollution Studies and Urban Climatology.
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Design and development of Meteorological Instruments.
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Climatology of India and neighbourhood.
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Air-Sea Interaction over north Indian Ocean..
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Seismology
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Applications of chaos and neural network theories in meteorological problems..
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Observations over Antarctica
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Ozone studies