MoES-Conducts-Winter-Fog-Campaign-WIFEX-2016-17-in-New-Delhi To better understand the science of fog formation over New Delhi, the Ministry of Earth Sciences inaugurated the Winter Fog Campaign at the New Delhi Airport. The Ministry Of Earth Sciences (MoES) launched an ‘observational’ campaign at Indira Gandhi International Airport on December 6, 2016 to conduct an
intensive ground-based measurement campaign in Delhi to understand different physical and chemical WIFEX features of fog and factors responsible for its genesis, intensity and duration. In order to make this new forecast model accurate, The three-month long campaign, led by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) Pune, will help scientists test their model of forecasting winter fog on various temporal and spatial scales.
The goal of the Winter Fog Experiment (WIFEX) is to develop methods for forecasting winter fog on various temporal and spatial scales, and help reduce its adverse impact on aviation, transportation and economy, and loss of human life due to accidents.
Extensive sets of comprehensive ground-based instrumentation, including remote sensing platforms, have been deployed at IGIA, New Delhi to measure micro meteorological conditions, radiation, fog droplet and aerosol microphysics, aerosol optical properties, and aerosol and fog water chemistry to describe the complete
environmental conditions in which fog develops.
The Ministry of Earth Sciences:
It was formed in 2006 from a merger of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune,
Minister of Earth Science: Harsh Vardhan
Headquarter: Prithvi Bhawan, Lodi Road New Delhi
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