Third Pole covers an area over 5 million km2, stretching from the Pamir and Hindu Kush in the west to the Hengduan Mountains in the east (Southwest China), from the Kunlun and Qilian mountains in the north to the Himalayas in the south. The third pole regional climate centre (TPRCC) is an effort to provide the best possible climate services at regional scale in support of climate risk management and adaptation. Pakistan will lead production of long-range forecasts. The LRF product(s) will cover the whole domain of the TPRCC-Network| Western Node, in a large scale, with appropriate projection. Each Node will be responsible to downscale and provide more tailored products for their sub-regions.
Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) is both a scientific and a service department, and functions under the Cabinet Secretariat (Aviation Division). PMD is responsible for providing meteorological service throughout Pakistan to wide variety of interest and for numerous public activities and project which require climatic information. Apart from Meteorology, the department is also extending services in the fields of Hydrology, Earthquake Seismology and Geomagnetism. WMO has divided the globe in to 8 meteorological region and Pakistan lies in Region #2 known as Regional Association II (RA-II) which includes Asia and Pacific. Director General of PMD is vice president of RA-II and permanent Representative of Pakistan.
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