TROPMET
2007
“Advances
in Meteorology and Their Applications”
17-19
December 2007, Bhopal
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TROPMET 2007, has been organized for the first time in
the beautiful city of lakes,
viz. Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The symposium “Advances in Meteorology
and Their Applications” held at the Academy of Administration, Bhopal during 17-19
December 2007, was inaugurated by H.E. the Governor of
Madhya Pradesh, Dr. Balram Jakhar on 17.12.2007. H.E., the Governor, stressed
about the need of accurate weather forecast
for sustainable development and
advised the scientific community to develop meteorological products useful
for the public in general and farmers,
in particular. The vast
traditional knowledge pool available in our country can be utilsed for
achieving the goal. is
HHHis kind presence enthused the young scientists and scholars who have
assembled to present their scientific findings.
Dr P S Goel, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences and Chairman Earth
Commission gave holistic view of integration of earth,
atmospheric and ocean sciences and plan of the Ministry of Earth
Sciences to modernize meteorological
services which includes
enhancement of computing power, dense network of observation from land,
ocean and atmospheric sensors; and high resolution
global and regional weather
model. He also emphasised
on the need to develop ensemble models for forecasting districtwise
weather phenomenon to advise farmers for
improving agricultural production
with timely availability
of agrometeorolocal advisories.
Dr R K Datta, Vice-President, Indian Meteorological Society,
gave history of Indian Meteorological Society, which has completed 50
years of its existence. He referred to the
contribution of IMS to
spread awareness and development of scientific skills
among the meteorological community.
Dr S D Attri, Secretary, Indian
Meteorological Society mentioned
in brief about the various awards and honours conferred by the IMS. He
conducted the award ceremony proceeding.
The following awards were
conferred:
His
Excellency, the Governor of
Madhya Pradesh, Dr Balram Jakhar presented Honorary Fellowship to Dr.
P.S. Goel, Fellowships to Dr. U S De and AVM
(Dr) Ajit Tyagi for their
for their pioneer contribution to the development of Meteorology and allied
sciences. He also released scientific
Proceeding of TROPMET 2007.
Dr P S Goel, Secretary Min. of Earth
Sciences presented Professor
A D Verneker Award to
Dr R. Krishnan, Dr B N Desai Award to Dr K Prasad and Dr Y V Rama Rao for
their scientific contribution.
Dr S D Attri was recently felicitated by
the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Dr Manohan Singh
for his contribution to the work of the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is the joint winner of the
Nobel Peace Prize for 2007. Dr
Goel honoured Dr Attri for
his outstanding contribution.
Sh
Bhupal Sing, Vice Chancellor welcomed
H. E. , dignitaries and delegates and Dr Dubey presented vote of
thanks.
Scientific
programme:
Scientific
Sessions continued for 3 days where-in around
105 innovative, enriched and quality
research papers and lead talks were
presented on observational
techniques, forecasting methodology and sectoral applications like
agriculture, climate change, natural hazard etc.
Plenary
session
Plenary
session was chaired by -Shri Babu
Lal Gour Honouble former CM and
presently honourable Minister for Public Sector Undertaking wherein he advised to utilize traditional knowledge alonwith
modern methodology and also presented
awards to Dr D P Dubey, convenor TROPMET 2007. Hon’ble Minister was honoured by IMS with presentation of
momento. Dr LS
Rathore gave overview of
modernization plan of IMD on Agrometeorology.. Dr S D
Attri, Secretary, IMS conducted
recommendation session where
valuable suggestions were given by delegates.
Sh D K Malik
presented vote of Thanks.