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YVU to set up atmospheric remote sensing centre

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V-C calls for creation of awareness on changes in local weather, climate variability

Expert views: P.J. Pan of National University, Taiwan, addressing an international workshop on atmospheric physics in Kadapa on Wednesday.

KADAPA: Yogi Vemana University will establish an International Centre for Atmospheric Remote Sensing in the semi-arid region, its Vice-Chancellor A. Ramachandra Reddy said on Wednesday.

In his inaugural address at the first international workshop on the ‘Frontiers of atmospheric physics and technology’ on the varsity campus, he said YVU would emerge as a focal point for climate monitoring and validation studies.

The workshop would lay special emphasis on the proposed setting up of atmospheric radars, Doppler radar and Lidars for atmospheric research, Dr. Ramachandra Reddy said. It would help forecast the interaction between clouds, aerosols and radiation and the land-atmosphere interface, land-atmosphere-ocean interactions, Asia monsoon precipitation and meteorological applications of Radar-Lidar.

The Vice-Chancellor called for creation of awareness and importance to the society the drastic changes in the local weather and climate variability. Studies were being conducted to understand key issues in the Indian monsoon convection process over semi-arid regions, precipitating cloud systems, land-atmosphere interactions with diurnal, intra-seasonal and seasonal time scale, Dr. Ramachandra Reddy stated.

Seven new courses

The university would introduce seven courses including on nanotechnology in addition to 16 existing courses, he said. About 140 international scientists participated in the workshop.

P.J. Pan, professor of National University, Taiwan, stressed the need for concerted research in advanced and unexplored areas of atmospheric science.

University principal L. Krishna Reddy said the varsity would develop as a research centre for atmospheric physics. A scientist Raghavan explained the concept. The university staff felicitated Prof. Ramachandra Reddy and his spouse on his completion of one year as Vice-Chancellor. University Registrar Premchand Babu, workshop convenor K. Krishna Reddy and scientists, professors and students participated.

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