CENTRE FOR OCEANS, RIVERS, ATMOSPHERE AND LAND SCIENCES

The Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL) at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur was established on March, 2005 for imparting quality teaching and advanced training in Earth System Sciences and Technology. The important mission of the centre is to identify and address the challenges of the Earth Systems Science such as climate changes, Natural Disasters triggered by Tsunamis, Cyclones, Earthquakes etc. Study of these events is highly multidisplinary in nature and requires a coordination effort for prediction and mitigation.

At present the Centre is offering a two year Postgraduate Program i.e. Master of Technology in Earth System Science and Technology. It is coincident that the start of the master's program by CORAL almost coincides with the establishment of Ministry of Earth Sciences by Government of India. The Centre is equipped with an Advanced Computing and Visualization Laboratory for integration of numerical models and visualization of these products. The Centre is also actively participating in the multi-institutional coordinated national programme on "Severe Thunderstorms Observations and Regional Modelling (STORM)" supported by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. With this humble start the centre has set up a advanced atmospheric observatory with all modern sensors along with a 50 meter meteorological tower. Besides teaching and research, this facility is also used as national facility for the studies of Nor'westers and monsoons.
The Department offers MTech degree in:

CL    Earth System Science and Technology

 

Course Contains :

The two year MTech in Earth System Sciences & Technology is designed to meet the trained manpower requirement in a very important area of sustainable future of mankind. The course is divided in four semesters with first two semesters having the course work of theory and laboratory. The third & the fourth semesters are mainly devoted to project work. The program is structured in line with the other M. Tech Programmes of the institute providing ample flexibility to the students to learn as per the course and the interest. The core subjects include; Advance Meteorology, Dynamics of Fluvial Systems, Ocean Dynamics, Global Tectonics and Climate with electives covering a set of vast topics from Advanced Instrumentation Techniques, Satellite Oceanography, Ocean Colour and Applications, Ocean Circulation and Wave Modelling, Marine Biotechnology, Polar Science, Modelling of Extreme Events, Carbon Cycle & Global Climate Change, Climate Modelling, Climate Risk Assessment in Agriculture, Neural Networks and Applications, Advanced Computational Hydraulics, Groundwater Modelling & Simulation, Integrated Watershed Management, Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry, Geo-informatics and Data Analysis to Environmental Hazard Management etc. The centre is also offering laboratory courses on Atmospheric and Hydrological Modelling, Ocean and Storm Surge Modelling and Data Analysis & Forecasting.

 

Areas of Research

The centre is involved in frontier research in oceanographic and atmospheric observational & modelling. In oceanography, the areas of present research activities include tsunami observations and modelling, wave modelling and ocean circulation. In atmospheric research, the present focus is on the observations and modelling studies of severe thunderstorms. Besides, the centre is also involved in mesoscale modelling of extreme weather events viz., tropical cyclone, heavy rainfall, and flash floods etc. The areas of specific interest in this direction are mesoscale data assimilation and micro-physical processes. The centre is also involved in observational modeling studies of urban boundary layer, regional climate modelling and impact assessment studies. Space based observations, retrievals; validation and assimilation of geophysical parameters of ocean, atmosphere and land are another area of research of the Centre. In view of India's active research in Antarctica, the Centre is also focusing on the remote sensing of sea-ice and southern ocean in relation to climate studies.

 

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