Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
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| Type | Research institution |
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| Established | 17 November 1962 |
| Director | R Krishnan |
| Location | , , India |
| Nickname | IITMians |
| Website | www |
The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) is a scientific institution based in
History
As proposed in the third five-year plan[citation needed] of India, the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) was founded as the Institute of Tropical Meteorology on 17 November 1962 at Pune as an individual unit of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the main organization responsible for meteorological observations, weather forecasts, and detecting earthquakes in India.[1]
On the recommendation of the Committee for Organization of Scientific Research of the Government of India, the Institute of Tropical Meteorology was then made an autonomous institution under the new name, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, on 1 April 1971.
Until 1984, it worked under the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation. In 1985, it was taken by the
Academics
The institute offers a M.Sc., M.Tech. and Ph.D. courses jointly under the aegis of the Department of Atmospheric and Space Sciences,
Apart from degree-courses, students can also apply for summer or master's thesis projects to individual scientists based on their research.
Computational facility
Adithya HPC, one of the largest computational capacities of India, is located at IITM. It is a common facility for all MoES institutions.
Pratyush or Prathyush (Hindi: प्रत्यूष, meaning "first light on the sky before rising the Sun") is a supercomputer designed and developed by IITM, Pune. As of April 2024, Pratyush is the 3rd fastest supercomputer in India, with a maximum speed of 6.8
The system was inaugurated by
Pratyush consists of two High-Performance Computing (HPC) units. They are located at two government institutes: 4.0 petaflops unit at IITM, Pune; and 2.8 petaflops unit at the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), Noida. Pratyush uses both units and provides a combined output of 6.8 PetaFlops.
Pratyush is used in the fields of weather forecasting and climate monitoring in India. It helps the country to make better forecasts in terms of monsoon; fishing; air quality; extreme events like a tsunami, cyclones, earthquakes, and lightning; and other natural calamities such as floods and droughts.
India is the fourth country in the world to have a High-Performance Computing facility dedicated to weather and climate research, after Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b IITM. "IITM - About". Retrieved 14 September 2011.
- ^ unipune. "DASS Academics, University of Pune".
- ^ "Ph.D. Programmes". www.tropmet.res.in. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
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