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The automatic weather stations will be used by IGNOU faculty members, researchers, and students from various disciplines such as geology, geoinformatics, geography, environmental sciences, agriculture, etc. Read more here!
New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has joined hands with the Meteorological Department, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) to install an automatic weather station (AWS) at IGNOU Maidan Garhi Campus, New Delhi.
The agreement was signed by IGNOU Registrar Alok Chaube and Charan Singh, DDMG, RIMC, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) in the presence of IGNOU Registrar Alok Chaube and Charan Singh, DDMG, RIMC, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD).
Additionally, IGNOU Vice-Chancellor (VC) Nageshwar Rao and the University Pro-Vice Chancellors Srikant Mohapatra, Sumitra Kukreti and Kiran Hazarika were also present on the occasion.
Informing about this initiative, IGNOU Charan Singh said, “To provide location-specific observations and warning services within urban agglomerations, IMD has started to expand its urban services and is installing more such stations in important cities, including Delhi-NCR.
“Meteorological data, including temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, wind direction, wind speed, and pressure, are continuously recorded by AWS, which are crucial for academics and students conducting research, particularly in the fields of environmental, climate and atmospheric sciences”, he added.
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IGNOU Schools of Science Director Meenal Mishra shared that these automatic weather stations will be used by IGNOU faculty members, researchers, and students from various disciplines such as geology, geoinformatics, geography, environmental sciences, agriculture, etc.
In addition to this, the station will be used for various awareness purposes to the local community. IGNOU V-C Nageshwar Rao shared his gratitude for launching the AWS and several master's programs that will be useful for students and researchers.
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