Pakistan Meteorological Department has been categories into following services:
- Observatories, data generation and dissemination services in the following areas
- Surface Weather Data
- Earthquake Data
- Astronomical Data
- Solar Radiation Data
- Atmosphere Ozone Data
- Earth's Magnetic field Data
- Background Air Pollution Data
- Aeronautical forecasts and
warning services for Civil Aviation, PAF, Army, Navy and other users.
- Flood forecast and warning services.
- Earthquake data and seismic information services to Civil Engineers and other users for dams, bridges,
townships.
- Farmer's Weather Bulletin
and Warning Services.
- Public utility and advisory services in various fields of:
- Planning and Development
- Town Planning
- Construction of Roads, Bridges,
Aerodromes, Power Plants, Airconditioning etc
- Provision of Meteorological/Geophysical
data for court cases, insurance claim, inquiry reports, district gazetteers
etc
- Military operation services in the following way:
- Weather Monitoring Air Bases
- Forecasts and Warning for Air Bases
- Weather forecasts and Monitoring in
assigned areas
- Meteor Reports
- Marine Meteorological Forecasting and
Warning Services:
- Air
Pollution Monitoring Services
- Air
Pollution Monitoring Services
- Research
activities in the following fields:
- Meteorology
- Climatology
- Hydrology
- Oceanography
- Atmospheric Physics
- Environmental Pollution
- Geophysics
- Agricultural Meteorology
- Astronomical services in the following fields:
- Sun rise/set timings
- Namaz timings and Qibla Direction
calculations
- Morning/evening twilight timings
- Sun/Moon Eclipse
- Sighting of new moon
- Training
in Meteorology and Geophysics for:
- Departmental Trainees
- Trainees from other organizations
- Foreign training
- PAF (Met. branch) trainees
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