Welcome to the Department of Meteorology at the COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad Campus. The Department is renowned for its expertise in multidisciplinary fields of meteorology, atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric physics and climate science. We offer services to specialists in pursuit of operational excellence of varying backgrounds ranging from Meteorology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Remote Sensing, Geography, Geodesy and Geographical Information System. We have an energetic and talented faculty that provides graduate students with an outstanding and rigorous educational experience.
Department of Meteorology at CUI is striving hard to be a national leader in teaching and research by pursuing academic excellence in the fields of Meteorology, Geoinformatics, Physical Geography, Earth Observation from space, and Environmental Sciences. The department offers educational and research platform to address contemporary atmosphere related issues including weather, tropical meteorology to severe storms, data assimilation to ecosystem biochemistry, and weather forecasting to climate prediction along with cutting-edge geospatial sciences and technologies such as Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Satellite Remote Sensing (RS), by offering MS and PhD programs in Meteorology and Remote Sensing & GIS. Meteorological Science will help you in becoming expert in the field of Ocean-Atmosphere climate systems and undertake research challenges to improve Weather and Climate Forecasts. GIS technologies; Global Positioning System, Satellite Remote Sensing have proven greatly beneficial in identifying opportunities, better management of natural resources, floodplain and groundwater modeling, forests monitoring, environmental impact assessment, crime analysis, fire prevention, emergency management, military and defense by improving efficiency, and better decision making by providing interactive tools and data processing capability for complex situations which has become possible only through accelerated integration of computer hardware and software systems.
The department is well equipped with laboratory resources for conducting research. These include small cluster lab to run the simulations in climatic studies, meteorological instruments like LIDAR, Ceilometers, Automated Lightening Alert and Risk Management System (ALARM), visibility sensors and software for RS & GIS studies. The Department also hosts the Centre for Climate Research & Development. The faculty of the department welcomes graduate students interested in carrying out research in these fields. More information about specific research areas is available from faculty home pages.
The state institutions running under Ministry of Defense like Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) and Pakistan Air Force (PAF) are sending their employees for getting higher education and till now, many officers have graduated from the Department of Meteorology. Many NGO’s and government organizations that deal with weather forecasting, hydrological resource modeling, and climate change science, are collaborating with the department for capacity development of their employees.
The department will continue to focus on innovation and currency of knowledge with sustainable development and applied paradigms pertinent to South Asian Monsoon dynamics, extreme climatic events and their forecasting and mitigation measures, changes in land use, hydrological resources modeling and evaluation, climatic variability and its impact and to provide window for advance research in atmospheric complexities and soil loss and reclamation and pollution of atmosphere and water. It is a wonderful place to learn, to stretch your abilities, to make life-long friendships and to prepare for a career where you can make a positive difference in your community and the world.
Dr. Muhammad Imran Shahzad
Incharge/Head of Department, Department of Meteorology
CUI, Islamabad Campus