INCOMPASS 2015-2018
INCOMPASS Media and written resources for the wider public
This page contains links to press interest, social media and documents written for non-experts.
Duncan Wingham: This is the most ambitious atmospheric observation campaign that NERC has undertaken.
Newspaper articles
- 14 March 2017. University of Reading scientist Dr Arathy Menon appears in Manoram Online newspaper article relating to her participation in the 2017 STEM for Britain competition at the House of Commons, UK:
- A newspaper cutting relating to this
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- Arathy's STEM for Britain poster
- 5 August 2016. Interviewed for article in Eastern Eye on the INCOMPASS field campaign and flights in India: Joint project Incompass study of factor's affecting India's monsoon by Sav D'Souza | PDF version
- 13 July 2016. Article in New Kerala.com on the Hon'ble Minsister's participation in INCOMPASS demonstration flight: India's Science Minister participates in the UK-India joint observational campaign to study monsoon variability
- 13 July 2016. Article in Cape Town Express citing Hon'ble Minsister's participation in INCOMPASS demonstration flight: India's Science Minister participates in the UK-India joint observational campaign to study monsoon variability
- 12 July 2016. Newspaper article in the Hindustan Times (Lucknow) on the INCOMPASS/SWAAMI aircraft campaign: "Rain-chasing" aircraft predicts good rainfall in UP after July 15. LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh will have widespread rainfall after July 15. Even the parched land of the Bundelkhand region, which has been facing drought for consecutive years, will also be adequately drenched, says the ongoing Indo-UK joint research using...
- 11 July 2016. Newspaper article in the Hindustan Times (Lucknow) "RAIN PLANE" TO TAKE OFF FROM LUCKNOW TODAY. INDO-UK PROJECT Research aircraft will collect data on rainfall process. LUCKNOW: The rain chasing research aircraft will take off on its final sortie from the Lucknow airport on Monday to collect data for understanding the cloud - aerosol rainfall process in the Indian monsoon environment. This final rain chasing sortie of...
- 7 July 2016. Interviewed by and quoted in the Hindustan Times (Lucknow) article on the establishment of our temporary radiosonde launch site at IIT-Kanpur using University of Reading equipment: To study atmosphere, IIT-K releases weather balloons. KANPUR: A team of five scientists, including two from United Kingdom (UK), released six weather balloons from the airstrip at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) here on Wednesday. The release of balloons, which will continue for two...
- 3 July 2016: Interviewed by and quoted in The Telegraph (Calcutta, India) article: The rainmen cometh. "Top international weather experts are working closely with Indian scientists to crack the monsoon code. T.V. Jayan reports that their research will lead to precise forecasts, helping farmers in a country where 60 per cent of arable land is still fed by the rains"
- 23 June 2016. Article in City Today on the INCOMPASS aircraft campaign: High-tech India-British experiment raises hopes
- 9 June 2016. Article in Sakai Times on the INCOMPASS aircraft campaign: Technology to boost monsoon predictions
- 9 June 2016. Listing on Education News Agency (India): Ministry of Earth Sciences launches joint observational campaign with Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK for Monsoon Variability
- 8 June 2016. Article in Daily Excelsior ("The largest circulated daily of Jammu and Kashmir") on the Monsoons Programme observational campaigns: India, UK to carry out joint observational campaign to study monsoon variability
- 8 June 2016. Article in Net Indian on the Monsoons Programme observational campaign: India-UK study on improving monsoon prediction begins
Press releases
- 13 July 2016: MoES press briefing: Observational Campaign to study small-scale processes and large-scale monsoon variability under a Joint Indo-UK effort
- 12 July 2016: British Government press release: UK-India joint observational campaign to study monsoon variability. Dr Harsh Vardhan (Hon'ble Union Minister for Ministry of Science & Technology and Ministry of Earth Sciences) and Dr Alexander Evans (British Deputy High Commissioner to India) boarded the UK's Atmospheric Research Aircraft to study monsoon variability in Lucknow.
- 11 July 2016. Newton Fund press release: Indian Science Minister participates in study on monsoon variability partly funded by Newton Fund
- 11 July 2016. RCUK press release: Indian Science Minister participates in the UK-India joint observational campaign to study monsoon variability
- 8 June 2016. Indian Press Information Bureau press release: Observational Campaign to study Small-Scale Processes and Large-Scale Monsoon Variability under a Joint Indo-UK Effort
- 25 May 2016. NERC press release for INCOMPASS and SWAAMI aircraft campaigns: Indian and UK researchers team up to reveal secrets of the monsoon | NERC Chief Executive Duncan Wingham said: This is the most ambitious atmospheric observation campaign that NERC has undertaken. The campaign will gather fresh data on the region in more detail than ever before, bringing together scientists from the UK and India to improve forecasts of the South Asian monsoon and to learn more about its potential impacts on the global climate..
- 26 August 2014. NERC and RCUK press releases: Indian and UK scientists team up to tackle monsoon for Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Davey's comments on the launch of the NERC/MoES Drivers of Variability in the South Asia Monsoon programme, of which my INCOMPASS project is one of three components. | Associated UK Government news article. | Hugh Coe's University of Manchester press release.