The Right to Information
Act, 2005
India Meteorological
Department
MANUAL-(XIV)
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Details in respect of the information, available
to or held by it, reduced in an electronic form.
National Data Centre (NDC) Pune is the custodian of the meteorological data. The Climatological information is being preserved at NDC in
electronic form. The meteorological data collected by observatories all over
India are transferred to compact disks for permanent archival. About 9-36 billion
characters of data are held in IMD archives at present. A powerful mainframe
computer system VAX-4000/300 with a large number of peripherals viz. Tape
drives, PCs, Workstations, CDROMs and CTD drives, plotters, printers with
suitable software etc. has been in operation at National Data Centre. Besides
meeting the needs of research and development activities, NDC also facilitates
quick and efficient data processing, electronic quality control and retrieval
of data for users. On an average every month 10-12 lakh
records of meteorological data are being supplied to the users on floppies/CDs.
Sat.Met.
Division and Seismology Division at H.Q. office at Delhi are having their own
data centres wherein respective data of these fields
are kept in electronic form. Radar data of Doppler Weather Radars is available
in electronic form with the respective radar stations.
Routine weather information, forecast,
warning, NWP products, INSAT cloud imageries and products, Doppler Radar
Product etc. are made available on IMD HQ website and other regional website of
IMD listed Below:
1. IMD HQ : http:// www.imd.gov.in
http:// www.imd.ernet.in
2. RMC Chennai :
http:// www.imdchennai.gov.in
3. RMC Mumbai :
http://www.imdmumbai.gov.in/main.htm
4. RMC Kolkata :
http:// www.imdkolkata.gov.in
5. RMC New Delhi : http://www.amssdelhi.gov.in
6. RMC Nagpur :
http://www.imdngp.org
7. RMC Guwahati : http:// www.imdguwahati.org
8. Pune Offices : http:// www.imdpune.gov.in
9. Positional Astronomical Centre :
http:// www.packolkata.org