History

The Meteorological Observatory at Dehradun was established on January 1, 1967 in the Geodetic and Research branch campus of Survey of India. In the initial years Observatory worked under Meteorological Centre, Lucknow, it was in the year 2002, Meteorological Centre, Dehradun was established. In August, 2014 Meteorological Centre, Dehradun was shifted from Survey Campus to new office building at Mohkampur, Dehradun.

Mission

To take meteorological observations and to provide current and past meteorological information, current weather and weather forecasts on various temporal and spatial scale for optimization of resources of weather-sensitive activities like agriculture, irrigation, aviation, power plants, planning, industrial operations, tourism, disaster management and other activities.

Objective

• Establishing, operating and maintaining a network of manual/automatic weather stations including synoptic, upper atmosphere, radiation, climatological, agro meteorological observations.
• To record meteorological observations (surface, radiation and upper atmosphere) of the Uttarakhand state on different temporal and spatial scale through the manned and unmanned observatories and also to provide the current weather observations of all airports of the state.
• To provide now-cast, short range and medium range weather forecasts and other information to the users for aviation and non aviation purpose.
• To communicate the current and past meteorological information , forecast products and warnings to the public, aviation, industry, agriculture, tourism sector, Railways, defence forces, Uttarakhand Government and its concerned authorities, etc.
• To warn the public and disaster management authorities of the state Government against severe weather phenomena like thunderstorm, heavy rain/snow, frost, thundersquall, cold and heat wave, etc., which cause destruction to life and property, affect social-economic activities and agriculture operations etc.
• Establishing, operating and maintaining a data bank of basic meteorological data and to provide climatological data and information required for agriculture, water resource management, industries, insurance covers, Research and other nation-building activities.
• Conducting applied meteorological research to advance scientific understanding of weather and climate.
• Inspection of all the departmental/non departmental observatories, AWS/ARG and manual rain gauge stations in state to maintain the quality of meteorological observations.

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