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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.
After a tropical cyclone hit Calcutta in 1864, and the subsequent famines in 1866 and 1873 due to the failure of the monsoons, it was decided to organise the collection and analysis of meteorological observations under one roof. As a result, the India Meteorology Department was established on 15 January 1875. [4]
Pratyush and Mihir are the supercomputers established at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune and National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast (NCMRWF), Noida respectively. As of January 2018, Pratyush and Mihir are the fastest supercomputer in India with a maximum speed of 6.8 PetaFlops at a total cost of INR 438.9 Crore. [2]
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.
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune; National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chennai; Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Hyderabad; National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Goa; National Centre for Earth Science Studies(NCESS), Thiruvananthapuram
Indian Meteorological Department, Pune and Raman Research Institute, Bangalore Anna Mani (23 August 1918 – 16 August 2001) was an Indian physicist and meteorologist . [ 1 ] She retired as the deputy director general of the Indian Meteorological Department and also served as a visiting professor at the Raman Research Institute . [ 1 ]
Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management: Gwalior, Nellore, Bhubaneswar, Noida, Goa, Bodh Gaya (Camp), Shillong (Camp) Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (Natural Resource) Pune: Indian Institute of Natural Resins and Gums (Indian Lac Research Institute) (Natural Resource) Ranchi
On returning to India, Pisharoty became the Director of Colaba and Alibag Magnetic Observatories in 1959 and Founder Director of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune in 1962. In 1967 he retired as Director of the Institute of Tropical Meteorology and joined the Physical Research Laboratory , Ahmedabad as a senior professor at the ...