India Meteorological Department

meteorological agency of the Government of India
Organization meteorological_service Q923628
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India Meteorological Department

Summary

India Meteorological Department is a meteorological service[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of meteorological_service entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (526 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • India Meteorological Department was a member of World Meteorological Organization[3].
  • India Meteorological Department is located in New Delhi[4].
  • India Meteorological Department is in the country of India[5].
  • India Meteorological Department's instance of is recorded as meteorological service[6].
  • India Meteorological Department's instance of is recorded as government agency[7].
  • India Meteorological Department's headquarters location is recorded as Lodhi Road[8].
  • India Meteorological Department's ISNI is recorded as 0000000404981600[9].
  • India Meteorological Department's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 157617560[10].
  • India Meteorological Department's GND ID is recorded as 1001840-2[11].
  • India Meteorological Department's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n50054245[12].
  • India Meteorological Department's IdRef ID is recorded as 131540270[13].
  • India Meteorological Department's NACSIS-CAT author ID is recorded as DA1139605X[14].
  • India Meteorological Department's child organization or unit is recorded as Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology[15].
  • India Meteorological Department's child organization or unit is recorded as Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai[16].
  • India Meteorological Department's Commons category is recorded as India Meteorological Department[17].
  • India Meteorological Department's Libraries Australia ID is recorded as 35219849[18].
  • +1875-01-15T00:00:00Z marks the founding of India Meteorological Department[19].
  • India Meteorological Department's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06srtz[20].
  • India Meteorological Department's Open Library ID is recorded as OL1704087A[21].
  • India Meteorological Department's parent organization or unit is recorded as Ministry of Earth Sciences[22].
  • India Meteorological Department's official website is recorded as https://mausam.imd.gov.in/[23].
  • India Meteorological Department's topic's main category is recorded as Category:India Meteorological Department[24].
  • India Meteorological Department's BIBSYS ID is recorded as 13007858[25].
  • India Meteorological Department's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'IMD'}[26].
  • India Meteorological Department's X is recorded as Indiametdept[27].

Body

Founding

+1875-01-15T00:00:00Z marks the founding of India Meteorological Department[19].

Identity

India Meteorological Department's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'IMD'}[26].

Operations

India Meteorological Department's headquarters location is recorded as Lodhi Road[8]. Its parent organization or unit is recorded as Ministry of Earth Sciences[22]. Subsidiaries include Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology[15], a research institute[28], in India[29], founded in 1962[30] and Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai[16], a government agency[31], founded in 1945[32], headquartered in New Delhi[33].

Why It Matters

India Meteorological Department ranks in the top 8% of meteorological_service entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (526 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . GRID. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] . GRID Release 2017-01-10. wikidata.org.
  7. [10] . CiNii Research. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] . wikidata.org.
  10. [13] . wikidata.org.
  11. [14] . CiNii Research. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [15] . wikidata.org.
  13. [16] . wikidata.org.
  14. [17] . wikidata.org.
  15. [18] . wikidata.org.
  16. [3] . wmo.int. wmo.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Salil Kumar Mukherjee · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category Category:India Meteorological Department
    Member of World Meteorological Organization
    Inception
    Country India
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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