Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology Dr Jitendra Prasad inaugurates the latest upgraded state-of-the-art doppler weather radar
Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated the latest upgraded state-of-the-art Doppler Weather Radar (DWR) & Indigenous GPS-based Pilot Sonde at Indian Meteorological Office in Jammu.
Dr Singh said the X-Band Doppler Weather Radar installed will help in providing real-time monitoring and reporting of weather events affecting the Jammu region and will help provide weather forecasts in different sectors including agriculture and tourism forecast especially for the pilgrims of Mata Vaishno Devi.
Besides providing real-time monitoring, the X-Band Doppler Weather Radar stationed at Jammu will provide improved weather services to the people of J&K and input to numerical weather prediction models for generating better weather forecasts, the minister added.
Dr M Mohapatra, DG Meteorology, IMD, Alok Kumar, Principal Secretary, Science & Technology, UT of J&K, RaghavLangar, Divisional Commissioner, Jammu, Charan Singh, Head, Regional Meteorological Centre, Delhi and KC Saikrishnan, Head Upper Instruments Division, IMD were also present during the inauguration.
