Giving a major fillip to weather prediction, a vital factor in Naval operations’ planning, the Indian Naval Meteorological Analysis Centre (INMAC) was inaugurated at the Naval Base here on Friday.
Vice-Admiral Pradip Kumar Chatterjee, Deputy Chief of Naval Staff, inaugurated the facility in the presence of Vice-Admiral Satish Soni, Commanding-in-Chief of Southern Naval Command.
INMAC will synergise the advantages of different methodologies of forecasting -- synoptic, climatology-persistence and numerical weather prediction techniques, with advanced satellite data processing techniques, to ensure speed and objectivity in forecasts.
INMAC, on reception of meteorological data from Indian Meteorological Department, will disseminate this to meteorological offices of the Navy across the country through intranet, after due analysis, plotting and processing. The distribution and dissemination of data is facilitated through a propriety software provided by Wipro, the executor of the project, through Corobor MESSIR systems.
The forecasts, for any location across the globe would be available to Navy’s operation rooms, platforms and aircraft.