| Session Details | |
| Section | AS - Atmospheric Sciences |
| Session Title | Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere |
| Main Convener | Prof. Sivakumar Venkataraman (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) & University of Pretoria, South Africa) |
| Co-convener(s) | Prof. Hassan Bencherif (Universite de la Reunion, Reunion) Prof. Fredrick Semazzi (North Carolina State University, United States) Prof. A Jayaraman (National Atmosphere Research Laboratory, India) Dr. R.S. Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, National Remote Sensing Agency, India) |
| Session Description | Remote sensing is simply defined as the observation of an object from some distance. It allows - to probe large volumes economically and quickly, such as providing global measurements of aerosols, air pollution, agriculture, impacts on the environment, solar and terrestrial systems, ocean surface roughness and large-scale geographic features. The modern atmosphere remote sensing technique offers to study in detail, the atmospheric physics/chemistry and meteorology. In general, observation, validation, and theoretical simulation are highly integrated components of atmospheric remote sensing. Active and passive remote-sensing techniques and theories/formulation methods for measuring atmospheric and environmental parameters have advanced rapidly in recent years. This session invites the contribution from wide range of scales of remote sensing techniques to study the atmosphere structure and dynamics, Such as; • Different remote sensing techniques (both Active and Passive) (for e-g.,) - Lidars, Radars, Radiosonde/Ozonesonde, Spectrometers, Satellite and etc., • Data validation and retrieval analysis, • Atmosphere structure and Dynamics, • New remote sensing techniques and developments, • Vertical and Horizontal exchange processes in the atmosphere, • Studies related to aerosols, clouds, water vapour, ozone and etc., • Atmosphere turbulence, • Climatology and seasonal variability, • Model simulation studies |