SHORT TERM REFRESHER COURSE ON “UPPER AIR INSTRUMENTS & RADARS”

The Information Communication and Instrumentation Training Centre (ICITC) of India Meteorological Department, a component of the WMO RTC in India, is offering a refresher training programme to the departmental / extradepartmental personnel working as scientist / meteorological technicians/operators. It will be five working days short-term training course starting from 17.07.2023, which will be helpful to the professionals to improve their skills as well as refresh the subject. The schedule of the training programme will be sent to the participants well in advance. Participation in this training programme is online only. The subjects taught are broadly “Upper Air Instruments” like measurement of upper air pressure, temperature, wind and humidity, methods of upper wind observations, radiosonde, radio theodolite, radars, computation of meteor reports, principles of measurement of upper air temperature, pressure and humidity by meteorograph, radiosonde, principles of measuring winds by radar and radio theodolites, GPS radiosonde, GPS receiver, radars, lidars, wind profilers, satellite based profiles, their uses and significance along with trouble shooting and calibration techniques. For more information and instructions on how to apply for this course, please contact icitrg.centre@imd.gov.in