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The Royal Meteorological Institute is an institute of the
Belgian Federal Government belonging to the ministry responsible
for Scientific Policy. The tasks of the institute comprise the
permanent delivery of services: for the security and information of
the public, including the socio-economic and scientific
communities; for the support of the political authorities. The
services, mentioned above comprise: hydrometeorology, climatology,
geophysics, and similar sciences. The continuous management of
observational networks, scientific research, innovation and
international collaboration, guarantee the quality of these
services.
The institute is divided in 5 departments: "Operational
services and user-services", responsible for the weather forecasts
and distribution of the products, "Meteorological research and
development ", responsible for the research in the above mentioned
area's, "Geophysics: services and research ", responsible for
research on the internal and external geophysics, "Observations",
responsible for the maintenance of the observational networks
(synoptic, radiometric, climatological, lightning), both from
ground and from space, "Data-processing", responsible for the IT
infrastructure and support.
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