Meteorological Center

Main Tasks of the Department:

• organization, development and methodical guidance of the state system of meteorological and agrometeorological observations;
• issue of public meteorological forecasts (agrometeorological, climatic) and warnings about dangerous weather phenomena that are regularly disseminated to the central and local public authorities, mass media; provision of economic agents with specific information about unfavorable weather phenomena on a contract basic according to the scheme coordinated by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources;
• issue of specific forecasts for economic agents in terms of contract;
• control over use of hydrometeorological information by economic agents;
• delivery of specific information about hazard occurrence and intensity to juridical and natural persons as requested;
• systematic analysis, synthesis of meteorological and agrometeorological conditions;
• preparation and publication of informative material and systematic delivery of information to the local and central public authorities, economic agents and population.

Meteorology Department includes the following centers:

• Meteorology and Climatology Center;
• Meteorological Forecast Centre;
• Agrometeorological Monitoring Center;
• Information Management Center;
• National Meteorological Observations Network.