Atmospheric Science Lab

The Atmospheric Science Laboratory at IIST was set up to provide training and research opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students. The on-campus and off-campus facilities available for graduates and faculty research in atmospheric sciences are state-of-the-art field instrumentation for aerosol-cloud interactions, solar radiation instruments for energy budget studies at the Ponmudi Climate Observatory on the hilltop of the Western Ghats (PCO, 8.76°N, 77.12°E, 1 km, AMSL), Planetary Boundary Layer Laboratory with a wide variety of field instrumentation, and Computer lab in the department for weather data processing and analysis. Students are exposed to numerical modelling. In addition, high-performance computing systems are available for running regional to global models.

IIST- Ponmudi Climate Observatory

All members of the atmospheric sciences faculty are active in research and supervise graduate students' theses and dissertations. The laboratory is having very active doctoral programmes. At present, the faculty and graduate students are actively pursuing the research projects, like; Air-Sea interaction, Boundary Layer Meteorology, Climatology, Aerosol-Cloud-Solar radiation-Climate interaction, Radiative forcing; Satellite Remote Sensing; Data assimilation and Mesoscale modelling; Numerical Modeling of Weather systems; Climate Change.