In June 2006, he was appointed as the director of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology ( IITM ) and he stayed at the post till 2014 when he moved to the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research to hold the MoES Pisharoty Chair Professor at the Earth and Climate Science Department of the institute.
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The "'Ministry of Earth Sciences "'was formed in 2006 from a merger of the India Meteorological Department ( IMD ), the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting ( NCMRWF ), the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology ( IITM ), Pune, and Earth Risk Evaluation Centre ( EREC ), and the Ministry of Ocean Development.
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In 2006, a study by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology ( IITM ) in Pune showed extreme precipitation events had increased in frequency and intensity in India over the period from 1950 to the 2000s; while CSE s climate change experts recommend detailed attribution studies to establish more links between the Chennai floods and climate change, they did state that existing scientific studies establish a possible connection.
