Automatic Weather Station installed

Staff Reporter, Guwahati February 29: Regional Meteorological Centre, Guwahati has installed Automatic Weather Stations in remote and hilly regions in the state of Arunachal Pradesh with the help of Indian Army. It is a great challenge to maintain the systems for continuous receipt of weather data from such regions. A training programme on ‘Installation, Preventive and Corrective Maintenance of Satellite-Based Automatic Weather Stations’ has been organized by Regional Meteorological Centre, Guwahati during February 27 to 28 for army personnel. In the inaugural function, Sri K.N. Mohan, Scientist-G delivered a lecture on ‘Introduction to Automatic Weather Station and its Components.’ On this occasion, Dr. Sanjay O’Neill Shaw, Scientist-F, Sri Sunit Das, Scientist-F, Sri Sailen Saikia, Scientific Officer and Sri A.C. Roy, Meteorologist were also present. On the concluding day, Dr. M. Mohapatra, Director General of Meteorology, India Meteorological Department interacted with the army officials through video conferencing. Dwipen Bezbaruah, Professor and former Head of the Department, Anthropology, Gauhati University distributed certificates and mementoes to the army officials for successfully completing the training programme.