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The IMD headquarters were later shifted to Shimla in 1905, then to Pune in 1928 and finally to New Delhi in 1944. [5] IMD became a member of the World Meteorological Organisation after independence on 27 April 1949. [6] The agency has gained in prominence due to the significance of the monsoon rains on Indian agriculture. It plays a vital role ...
As proposed in the third five-year plan [2] of India, the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) was founded as the Institute of Tropical Meteorology on 17 November 1962 at Pune as an individual unit of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the main organization responsible for meteorological observations, weather forecasts, and detecting earthquakes in India.
Wettest tropical cyclones and their remnants in India Highest-known totals; Precipitation Storm Location Ref. Rank mm in; 1: 2,300 90.55: 1968 Severe Cyclonic Storm
MOSDAC [1] (the Meteorological and Oceanographic Satellite Data Archival Centre) is a data repository for the missions of the Indian Space Research Organisation [2] (ISRO) and Government of India, dealing with meteorology, oceanography and tropical water cycles.
During the next day as the Depression turned towards the northeast, the IMD reported that it had intensified into a Cyclonic Storm and named it Phyan. Chandwad in Maharashtra recorded 240 mm of rainfall in 48 hours between 11 and 12 November. The maximum winds of 68 km/h were reported in Pune at the time of landfall.
During the Triassic period of 251–199.6 Ma, the Indian subcontinent was the part of a vast supercontinent known as Pangaea.Despite its position within a high-latitude belt at 55–75° S—latitudes now occupied by parts of the Antarctic Peninsula, as opposed to India's current position between 8 and 37° N—India likely experienced a humid temperate climate with warm and frost-free weather ...
The Ministry of Earth Sciences was formed on 29 January 2006 from a merger of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), [2] the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), [3] the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune (IITM), [4] the Earth Risk Evaluation Centre (EREC) and the Ministry of Ocean Development.
In 2006, a study by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) in Pune showed extreme precipitation events had increased in frequency and intensity in India over the period from 1950 to the 2000s; while CSE's climate change experts recommend detailed attribution studies to establish more links between the Chennai floods and climate ...