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The Pakistan Meteorological Department (reporting name: PMD; unofficially known as Pakistan Met Office ), is an autonomous and independent institution tasked with providing forecasts, public warnings, and purposes of protection, safety, and general information. Apart from meteorology, it is also involved in monitoring as well as investigating weather phenomenons, astronomical events, hydrology, and research in astrophysics, climate changes, and studies on aeronautical engineering, renewable energy resources across various parts of the country.〔 Headquartered in Islamabad, it has offices and research facilities in all over the four provinces of the country. As of current, Dr. Ghulam Rasul is the current Director-General of the Pakistan Meteorological Department. ==History== In 1875, the British government established the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) in India. Sir Charles Normand later became the IMD's chief scientist and director. Under the guidance of Dr. Kedareswar Banerjee and Dr. Charles Normand, the IMD expanded its facilities all over the rest of the Indian Empire to engage in collecting the meteorological data.〔 After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) was created in the newly born country.〔 Since its establishment, the PMD has become one of the leading governmental scientific institution in guiding the government in environmental and space policy formation.〔 In 1948, the PMD started providing basic weather forecast to country's print media.〔 In 1965, the first televised weather forecast was broadcast by the state-controlled news channel, the PTV. In the 1950s, the PMD became one of the leading scientific institution leading the research in space and atmospheric sciences, and worked in close coordination with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Ministry of Environment (MoEn) for the accurate weather information for aviation and hydrography.〔 However in the 1960s, the PMD split with services to the Pakistan Navy being provided by its own forecasting department.〔 Nation's most notable scientists and scholars have been affiliated with the PMD since its established. The PMD also assisted the government in establishing the nation's space agency, Space Research Commission (SRC) in 1961 when many of its atmospheric scientists and technical staff joined the Space Research Commission. The PMD has also been assisting and leading the geomagnetic studies section of the Geomagnetic monitoring programme of the SRC. Due to its resourcefulness and capable scientific staff, the PMD has become a reliable government agency for providing accurate data and forecast in the country.〔 Since 1974, the Meteorological department has introduced a seismic detection system to scientific data acquire on the nuclear explosion and natural earthquake activities.〔 Furthermore, its modern flood forecasting system has assisted the other government agencies and related organizations to improve radar, satellite, computer technology, flight safety, consultancy services in seismic design of dams, buildings and other development and disaster relief schemes.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pakistan Meteorological Department」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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