Minister for Forest, Vishwajit Rane inaugurated five Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) today. The AWS is situated at Mhadei, Mollem, Bondla, Netravali & Cotigao Wildlife Sanctuaries.
“I am happy to announce that Goa is first state in the country to place such an elaborate modern AWS for scientific management of forest and to study and ascertain impact of climate change on Biodiversity of Western Ghats Forest. Goa is one of the pioneer States in the country to set up AWS in Protected Areas,” tweeted Rane.
PCCF Rajiv Kumar Gupta, CWLW Umakanth, MD GFDC, Saurabh Kumar, Sarpanch Nagargao VP Sandhya Khadilkar, Panch members, Vinod Shinde were present among others.
AWS has been installed with the technical support of Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Government of India. It will record atmospheric data including – Air Temperature, Barometric Pressure, Humidity, Wind Speed and Direction, Soil Moisture, Soil Temperature and Rainfall on real time basis at 15 minute interval and transmit to a web portal with the help of a satellite.
