37 Nauki Ave., 03028, Kyiv, Ukraine

Phone: (044) 525 1250; fax: (044) 525 5663;
e-mail: uhmi@uhmi.org.ua;
http://www.uhmi.org.ua

Institute’s principal tasks are: fundamental and applied research in hydrometeorology and basic environment monitoring; scientific and methodological provision of effective operation of hydro-meteorological and other prompt services of the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine; coordination of research in hydrometeorology in Ukraine.

Main study areas of the Institute are:

– investigations of physical processes in atmosphere and hydrosphere;

– development of numerical and physical-and-statistical weather forecasting techniques of various lead time (short-, medium- and long-term one), including forecasts of natural meteorological disasters;

– study of physical and ecological mechanisms of climate formation and changes; mathematical modeling of regional climate, its relation to the global one, and peculiarities of its effect on the Ukrainian economy;

– study of physical, physiological, ecological mechanisms and patterns of

atmosphere and bedding effect on agricultural crops and crop yield forecasting;

– investigation of elemental hydro-meteorological phenomena and patterns of their time and space distribution;

– study of water-bodies regime and its forming factors;

– development of automated systems for forecasting spring and rain floods;

– integrated study of hydro-meteorological conditions and economic activities on environment pollution;

– study of the effect of natural and man-caused factors on surface-water chemical composition and quality in Ukraine;

– development of technical devices, systems and techniques to obtain and process hydro-meteorological information, development of information technologies;

– investigation of hydro-meteorological regime and hydrochemistry of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov;

– development of new and upgrading of existing instruments for hydro-meteorological measurements;

– drafting normative base and standards in the field of hydrometeorology and environment monitoring.

The following science schools work at the Institute:

– ‘Theoretical studies in cloud physics and weather modification’ (founded by Prof. M. V. Buykov, Dr. of Phys. and Math.);

– ‘Ecosystem concept of agricultural meteorology’ (founded by Prof. V. P. Dmytrenko, Dr. of Geog.).

The Institute proposes for cooperative commercialization:

– a system for on-line receiving and processing of digital information coming from NOAA meteorological satellites;

– application of isotope technologies in hydro-ecological studies;

– information-and-analytical system ‘Chemical composition and quality of surface water in Ukraine’.