DCCC, IISc Bengaluru - Training on Glacier Studies and Remote Sensing [Registration FREE]

Feb. 4, 2021, 11:56 a.m., Posted by: Nandita Singh

Overview: Divecha Centre for Climate Change is organizing a training on Glacier Studies and Remote Sensing for young students who wish to work in glaciology which covers various aspects of remote sensing applications in glaciology. 

 

Syllabus:

• Distribution of Glaciers and snow cover: Overview of Cryosphere, Importance of glaciers, precipitation and formation of snow, distribution of glaciers/snow.
• Application of remote sensing in glaciology: Fundamentals of Remote Sensing, Glacier inventory, Estimation of glacier mass balance, glacier depth, moraine-dammed lakes, snow cover, and snow albedo.
• Climate and climate change: Climate change and climate variability, General circulation of atmosphere and oceans, impacts of aerosols.
• Monitoring of glaciers: Physical and morphological properties of snow and glaciers, Development of algorithms and glacier modeling, Glacier Lake Outburst Flood.
• Glacier Mass Balance: Concept of glacier mass balance, methods of glacier mass balance estimation-Glaciological, Geodetic and AAR methods, the concept of ELA, IAAR method.
• Ice and Snow ablation: Physics of snowmelt, heat budget, and radiation. Snowmelt runoff model.

 

Venue & Date:

• Microsoft Teams online platform
• March 16- 26, 2021,
• Timing : 14:30 hrs-17:30 hrs

 

Eligibility:

• Post Graduate M.Sc., M.Tech., M.E.
• Ph.D. students from recognized Institutes/Universities.

 

Important Points:

• Last date for registration: 01st March 2021
• Intimation to selected candidates: 05th March 2021
• No registration fees for the trainees.

 

*For details about the Training check the below-given link.*