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ITANAGAR, 5 Jun:<\/strong> About 100 automatic weather stations\/automatic rain gauge stations will soon be installed by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), with the help of Arunachal Pradesh’ Centre for Earth Sciences & Himalayan Studies (CES&HS) in Arunachal.<\/p>\n A memorandum of understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed between the IMD and the CES&HS here on Monday.<\/p>\n Arunachal’s Science & Technology Secretary Repo Ronya and Guwahati (Assam)-based Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) Head KN Mohan signed the MoU on behalf of Arunachal and the IMD, respectively, in the presence<\/p>\n of union Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju, state Science & Technology Minister Honchun Ngandam, and RMC scientist (f) Dr Sanjayh O’Neill Shaw.<\/p>\n Rijiju informed that “the people of Arunachal Pradesh will be benefitted with precise weather forecasts and warnings with the increase in meteorological observations in the state.”<\/p>\n CES&HS Director Tana Tage informed that the MoU “will have long-term impact on the research activities for the societal benefits to be undertaken by the departments.”<\/p>\n Ngandam expressed happiness that the state will soon have an enhanced network of weather observations.<\/p>\n Shaw informed that, as part of the MoU, “both organisations will carry out joint research and development in field of meteorology and its allied subjects, knowledge transfers and information\/data sharing in areas of weather, extreme event monitoring and forecasting, to further the missions of their respective organisation.<\/p>\n “About 100 automatic weather stations\/automatic rain gauge stations will be installed in Arunachal Pradesh by the IMD, with the help of the CES&HS. The IMD is also planning to install three X-band Doppler weather radars in the state. This will help in enhancement of surface weather observations in the state. Also, weather forecasts with impact-based advisories will also be issued for different users of the state,” added Shaw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 5 Jun: About 100 automatic weather stations\/automatic rain gauge stations will soon be installed by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), with the help of Arunachal Pradesh’ Centre for Earth Sciences & Himalayan Studies (CES&HS) in Arunachal. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed between the IMD and the CES&HS here on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-217860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}