YSA Winners
🥇 1st Prize YSA – Mr. NandaKumar P from the University of Calcutta (CU), Kolkata for “Observations from Lower Atmosphere, Mesosphere and Ionosphere using 53MHz VHF Radar at the University of Calcutta”
🥈 2nd Prize YSA – Mr. Siva Sai Krishna from National Remote Sensing Centre, ISRO for “Quantifying the Cloud radiative heating rates for various Cloud Types and multi-layered clouds during the Indian Summer Monsoon period using Millimetre wavelength Radar observations”
SPC Winners:
🥇 1st Prize SPC – Mr. Vaibhav Tyagi from IIT Indore for “High-resolution 3D Wind Field Estimation with Single Doppler Weather Radar”
🥇 1st Prize SPC – Miss Shruti Saini from Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune for “Comparison of radar reflectivity measurements between ground-based weather radars and space-borne radar GPM over the East Coast and Southern Peninsula region, India”
🥈 2nd Prize SPC – Mr. Arjun Ghosh from the University of Calcutta (CU), Kolkata for “Solar Observation at 53 MHz using CU-ST Radar with Signal processing Techniques in Passive Mode Operation”
🥉 3rd Prize SPC – Miss Manisha Tupsoundare from IITM Pune for “Structure and evolution of Mesoscale Convective Systems in the monsoon core zone using satellite and radar observations”
Honorary Mention for SPC runner-ups:
Miss Ahana Mukhopadhyaya from Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Dehradun for “Analysis of the vertical profile of cloud reflectivity & associated rainfall during an extreme rainfall event over the north-west Himalayan region using satellite-based radar datasets”
Mr. Abhijeet Kumar from IITM, Bhopal for “Microphysical characteristics of extreme rainfall over a tropical station as revealed by X-band dual-polarization radar”
Mr. Nabarun Poddar from SPL, VSSC for “Aspect sensitive characteristics of CUSAT 205 MHz Stratosphere-Troposphere Radar at Cochin (10.04°N, 76.3°E) – First results”
Mr. Peeyush Gupta from Banaras Hindu University for “A Comparative study of precipitation forecast over Sikkim by using data assimilation technique in WRF mode”