THE Indian Cabinet on Wednesday was informed of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL), Department of Space and the Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH) at Japan's Kyoto University for academic and research cooperation and exchange.
The MoU, signed in November last year, will enable NARL and RISH to continue their cooperation in areas of atmospheric science and technology, collaborative scientific experiments and campaigns and related modelling studies utilising each other's research facilities.
They will exchange scientific materials, publications and information, joint research meetings and workshops, and also allow the exchange of faculty members, students and researchers.
It would lead to mutual utilisation of facilities such as the Middle and Upper atmosphere (MU) radar in Shigaraki, Japan, the Equatorial Atmosphere Radar (EAR) in Kototabang, Indonesia and complementary instruments available from RISH, and the Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) radar and complementary instruments available at NARL.
NARL and RISH have been collaborating in the area of atmospheric science and technology as well as exchange of scientists since 2008. |