The Right To Information Act, 2005

India Meteorological Department

 

MANUAL-(VI)

 

A Statement of the categories of documents that are held by it or under its control

 

       The documents held by the Department can be classified in three broad categories:

 

1.            Documents for operational services on general weather forecast, ∞aviation weather forecast, marine meteorology, agricultural meteorology, flood meteorology, cyclone warning and seismological services.

2.           Technical documents related to satellite meteorology, upper-air instruments, telecommunication, surface meteorological instruments including agricultural observations, radio meteorology/ environmental monitoring equipments and seismological instruments.

3.           Administrative documents on general administration, financial and fundamental procedures.

 

 

 

 

List of technical documents

 

List of technical documents Related to Agricultural Meteorology division for the use in Information Manual compiled for the right to Information Act, 2005

Sr.No

Name of the publication/Document

Year of

publication

1

Weekly rainfall probabilities for selected stations in India, Vol. I & II

1995

2

Crop weather calendar of Tamil Nadu

1993

3

Crop weather calendar of Rajasthan

2002

4

Crop weather calendar of Himachal Pradesh

2002

5

Crop weather calendar of Assam

2002

6

Crop weather calendar of Gujarat

2002

7

Crop weather calendar of Andhra Pradesh

2002

8

Crop weather calendar of Kerala

2000

9

Crop weather calendar of Karnataka

2003

10

Crop weather calendar of Orissa

2002

11

Crop weather calendar of West Bengal

2003

12

Crop weather calendar of Maharashtra

2003

13

Evaporation of data of observatories in India

1985

14

Weekly PET over India

1992

15

Dew deposition over India

1991

16

Normals of Agroclimatic Observatories in India

1991

17

Evaporation m,aps of India

1991

18

Agroclimatic atlas of India

1991

19

To

52

Evapotranspiration observations

For 34 stations- Canning, Raipur, Shyamkuntha, bhubaneshwar, Rahuri, Parbhani, Anakampalle, Solapur, Rajamundry, Bellary, Bangalore, Coi mbatore, Ludhiana, New Delhi, Jorhat, Bikramganj, Banswara, Ranchi, Rajkot, Kovilpatti, Pantnagar, Hissar, Dharwad, Jhansi, Rajendranagar & ICRISAT, Nellore & Tirupati, Jodhpur & Durgapur, Varanasi & Lucknow, Jabalpur & Bhopal, Anand & Dantiwada )

1999

53

Agromet Advisory Services Bulletin ( Bilingual, comprehensive & All India )

Weekly/Biweekly

 

List of technical document

Departmental telecommunication Network January, 2006

 

1.                   Low Speed Links

2.                 Telex

3.                 RT

4.                 MDD

5.                 RIR

6.                 TELEFAX

7.                 CCTV/IVR

8.                 VHF

9.                 VSAT

10.              Website / E-Mail Address

11.               Internal Links

 

 

 EMU UNIT

 

List of Documents:

1.       Sky radiometer/POM-01

User Manual

 

 

DDGM(SI),Pune

I.S.CIRCULARS’LIST

 

S.No.

Circular No.

Description

1.

1

General instructions for the care and maintenance of self-recording instruments

2.

2.

Barograph

3

3

Thermograph

4

4

The Dines Pressure Tube Anemograph

5

5

Kew Pattern Station Barometer

6

5

Natural Syphon Recording Raingauge

7

7

Hair hygrograph

8

9

Digital precision aneroid barometer(P.A.B)

9

10

Rain-gauge, non—recording

10

12

Measurement of snow-fall

11

13

Snow gauge  (203 mm)

12

14

Earth thermometer

13

16

Sunshine recorder

14

17

Assmann Psychrometer (700 mb)

15

17

Assmann psychrometer (1000 mb)

16

18

Grass minimum thermometer

17

20

Comparison of barometers

18

21

Fortin’s barometer

19

23

Kew Pattern Marine Barometer

20

25

Whirling psychrometer (Ship)

21

25

Whirling psychrometer (1000 mb)

22

26

Whirling psychrometer (900 mb)

23

29

Windvane mk II

24

30

Cup Counter Anemometer Mk II

25

33

Instructions for erecting thermometer screen

26

34

Cloud searchlight,alidade and clinomometer

27

35

Mobile observatory kit box , mk II

28

42

Distant indicating win d equipment

29

42 A

Distance indicating wind equipment  Model: DIWE 2000( with digital display)

30

43

Electrical anemograph

31

45

Moll-Gorczynski pyranometer (solarimeter)

32

45 A

Measurement of diffuse solar(sky ) radiation

33

46

Belliani spherical pyranometer

34

47A

Angstrom turbidity co-efficient

35

47B

Thermoelectric pyraheliometer with heliostat

36

48

Angstrom Pyrgeometer

37

50

Bimetallic pyranograph

38

51

Instructions for tabulation of hourly values of speed,. Direction and gustiness of wind from pressure tube anemograph

39

52

Tabulation of rainfall from intensity recorder

40

53

Instructions for tabulation of hourly values of pressure ,temperature , relative humidity and rainfall from autographic records

41

54

Instructions for tabulation of hourly values of sunshine

42

55

For giving short marks on roll charts and tabulation of hourly values from them

43

57

Current weather instrument system

44

61

Replacing clock drums of self recording instruments

45

64

Open Pan Evaporimeter

46

68

Airmeter and portable windvane

47

86

The Met. Asst. (at the ATC tower)- for the use of weather instrument

48

86 A

Standard operating procedures for Airport Meteorological instruments

49

86 B

Instructions for manual RVR observations

50

94

Corner type radar target

51

95

Radiometer sonde

52

98

Vollz sunphotometer

53

103

Surface ozone recorder

54

111

Potential Gradiant Recorder

 

 

Seismological technical documents

 

1.                               Seismology Bulletins

              (a monthly bulletin containing seismic data from Seismological                         Observatories in Indian)

2.            Technical document on studies carried out for significant                       earthquakes in India as following.

 

a)     Latur earthquake of 30th September, 1993 and its aftershocks (consolidated document)

b)    Jabalpur earthquake of 22nd May, 1997 and its aftershocks (a consolidated document)

c)     Chamoli earthquake of 29th March, 1999 and its aftershocks ( a consolidated document)

d)     Bhuj earthquake of 26th January, 2001 ( a consolidated document)

e)     Technical report of the Inter-institutional Working Group on the Great Tsunami of 26th December, 2004 in Sumatra Region. 

 

 

 

Weather Radar Document

 

 

The following manuals related to theory and operation of  weather Radar are available in Radar Lab

 

1. Weather Radar Observation manual Volume-I

 

2. Weather Radar Observation manual Volume-II

 

3. Doppler Weather Radar