Climate Resilient Observing Systems Promotion Council (CROPC)
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CROPC
Climate Resilient Observing-Systems Promotion Council – abbreviated as CROPC has been formed as Nonprofit organization under section 8 of Company Act 2013 to act as an interface between Central Early warning agencies, line departments, state, Community, NGOs and other stakeholders.
Our Patrons
Dr. Aditi Kapoor
IFRC
Anil Kumar Sinha
IAS (Retd.)
Dr. K.J. Ramesh
Former Director General of IMD
Prof. Ashvin K. Gosain
IIT Delhi
Prof. S.K. Dash
IIT Delhi & IMS
Dr. V.S. Prakash
Member, KSLDA
Dr. Mrutyunjay Mohapatra
Director General of IMD
Col. Sanjay Srivastava
Chairman, CROPC
N.M. Prusty
President, HAI
P.P. Shrivastav
IAS (Retd.)
Our Services
Hydrology
CROPC deals with developing hydrological models for surface water and ground water modelling, modelling of snow and glacier melt runoff, modelling and water profile simulations, flood forecasting, inundation, flood management, sediment yield estimation, thermal and water resources projects etc.
Climate Change
CROPC is involved in impact assessment of climate change on water, agriculture and environment sectors, quantifying on availability of water for drinking, irrigation, hydropower generation and industrial use of water in space and time using GCMs/RCMs output data, possible changes in severity of droughts and intensity of floods etc.
Environment
CROPC has expertise to estimate environmental flows for hydropower projects considering present and future social, agricultural and aquatic scenarios, impacts of various man-made actions on the environment including the impact assessment of point and non-point source pollutants, conservation of natural environment etc.
Agriculture
CROPC is able to make agricultural prediction using the crop growth models and the local weather parameters, study of water-agriculture-energy-climate change nexus, adaptation of agriculture practices under projected climate scenarios, modelling of nutrients, pesticides and fertilizer movement in agriculture area.