IMD launches new system
Source: The Sangai Express
New Delhi, January 15 2016 :
The Indian Meteorological Department
(IMD) on Friday launched a System of Aerosol Monitoring and
Research (SAMAR) which will help the country in studying concentration
of black carbon in atmosphere due to air pollution and
its impact on climate.
Aerosols are a subset of air pollution that contains gases,
fumes and dust in harmful proportion.
Aerosols particles can
be both solid and liquid which also affects environmental
visibility.
The SAMAR, equipped with many sophisticated
equipments including 12 sky radiometers, will study aerosols'
different properties and determine how it impact the climate
over a longer period of time.
At present, country has to
depend on other countries' research for this purpose.
The system was launched by the Union science and technology
minister Harsh Vardhan on the IMD's 141st foundation
day on Friday.
He also launched a new user-friendly website
of the country's central weather forecaster on the occasion.
Addressing the gathering, the minister congratulated the
meteorological department officials for the timely dissemination
of critical weather-related information to 1.15 crore
farmers through SMS and agriculture-portal in 2015, saying
the efforts had gone a long way in reducing the devastating
impact of the erratic rainfall on the Kharif crops.