International Symposium on Tropical Meteorology-2021

The International Symposium on Tropical Meteorology (INTROMET-2021) was conducted at the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Kerala, India, on virtual conference mode during 23-26 November 2021. Nevertheless, the inaugural and the valedictory functions were conducted in hybrid mode. The symposium was organised in three parallel halls (Hall-1: Pampa, Hall-2: Periyar, Hall-3: Nila) at the Advanced Centre for Atmospheric Radar Research (ACARR), CUSAT for 4 days period.

The INTROMET-2021 received 537 abstracts from across the national and international delegates. There were 13 plenary talks, 38 lead talks, and 28 invited talks, in addition to 114 oral and 272 poster presentations. The highlights of the Symposium were the three elegant memorial lectures on behalf of the three eminent Atmospheric Scientists of Indian origin, viz., Prof. P.R. Pisharoty, Prof. R. Ananthakrishnan and Ms. Anna Mani, and the release of special Postal Covers on their behalf. A special session that widely attracted the interests of both the scientists and the common public was the interactive assembly of the National Weather Services, which revealed largely the weather services rendered by various organisations under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India. The detailed statistics of the abstracts are provided in Table. The symposium comprised of 17 technical sessions, 3 Early Career Researcher’s sessions and an interactive session on the National Weather Service.