Bhubaneswar: In order to facilitate the people to have easy access to information regarding climate and related data, a weather station was opened at the Bakul Library in Satyanagar of Bhubaneswar on Sunday.
Chithra Arumugam, Principal Secretary, Science and Technology Department inaugurated the weather station, which has been installed by the US Consulate General, Hyderabad in partnership with the Bronx Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY), USA.
Prof Neal Phillip, Chairperson of the Department of Chemistry, Earth Sciences and Environmental Sciences, Bronx Community College of CUNY, who installed the weather station along with Prof Paramita Sen, explained its features and how it could be used to the volunteers of BAKUL.
The data from the weather station can be accessed by the public to know about significance of climate data and climate change. It will help monitor micro-climate parameters like temperature, air-pollution levels, air quality, humidity, solar radiation, ultraviolet rays, wind and precipitation among others in the city. This data will be available online for anyone from anywhere.
Salil Kader of the US Consulate said they had already installed weather stations in XIM and Sri Sri Universities. Stating that their next destinations are SOA and KIIT Universities, he said they set up weather stations at universities which have departments on Climate Sciences or Sustainability.
