INDIAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY


The Indian Meteorological Society was established at the 1956 Calcutta session of Indian Science Congress.

Objectives

  • Advancement of Meteorological and allied sciences
  • Dissemination of the knowledge of such sciences
  • Promotion of application of Meteorology and allied  sciences to various constructive human activities

Activities

  • To encourage and expand research activity
  • To organize meetings, discussions, symposia, conferences etc.,
  • To bring out suitable publications
  • To promote cooperation in scientific work

    The Society has its HQ at Delhi  with several branches called chapters functioning at various places. As of now there are 15 Chapters spread all over India. The society  also    brings   out its Bulletin 'Vayu Mandal'  published twice a year.

     The IMS has been holding TROPMET symposia  every  year since 1992 , which have served as the leading  fora to exchange and assimilate the developments taking place in Atmospheric and Allied Sciences. The list of  TROPMET symposia held so far are:

TROPMET-92        @   Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad, February 1992
TROPMET-93        @   India Met Dept/NCMRWF , New Delhi, March 1993
TROPMET-94        @   Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, February 1994
TROPMET-95        @   National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad, February 1995
TROPMET-96        @   Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, February 1996
TROPMET-97        @   Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, February,1997
INTROMET-97      @   Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, December 1997
TROPMET-99        @   Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai, February 1999
TROPMET-2000    @   Cochin University of S & T , Cochin, February 2000
TROPMET-2001    @   Regional Meteorological Centre, Bombay,  February 2001


National Executive Committee of IMS (2003-2005):

  Dr.S.K.Srivastav              President
  Dr.S.K.Dube                   Immediate Past President
  Mr.S.R.Kalsi                   Vice President
  Prof.U.C.Mohanty          Vice President
  Dr.Akhilesh Gupta          Secretary
  Dr.G.Srinivasan             Joint Secretary
  Dr.K.K.Singh                 Treasurer

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