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When some one asks me "which is the book to refer on atmospheric dynamics or stratosphere-troposphere exchange other than Holton and is 'easily understandable' ?" ; I reply that is the book by Mohan kumar sir is best and, I am proud to suggest that.   Stratosphere Troposphere Interactions - An Introduction Sir has invested a lot of time and effort to publish such a nice book. No wonder why the book got Atmospheric Science Librarian's Award...!!! "Hat's off" to you sir. "Prof.K. Mohan Kumar is an icon admired by students and staff alike"   ......  that is the feeling our batch got while we were in MSc. 1 St Sem. Sir was on leave when we joined and he returned back by the time we were in 2nd year. We were also told by our seniors that he used to sponsor the Onam sadhya in Dept. ! Unfortunately, we didn't have Prof.K.M.K's classes officially in our 3 rd or 4 th Sem...

My close friend Raghurama (as I call him often) , is flying above seas, going far off to London to take up an assignment for the 'comet catching' mission of the European Space Agency. He would be working with the Principal Investigator in the famous Imperial College, London. Dr.Susarla Raghuram has already completed 6 orbits around the Sun after joining SPL with Dr.Anil Bhradwaj for research on Comets and have proved to be a world class young scientist. This is a graphics specially dedicated to him.  Wishing him an active period ahead. Have a great time ahead Raghurama. ~~~~ Background image shows the April image of the Comet 67P-CG (red-circled) about which he is going to explore. Image courtesy:ESA

  Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Cochin University of Science and Technology is organizing a National seminar on the topic  ‘ Climate Change and Variability’  on 26th and 27 th  March 2012 at Cochin to commemorate the services rendered by Dr H.S. Rammohan Dean, Faculty of Marine Sciences for the last three decades of teaching and research in Meteorology / Atmospheric sciences. It would be followed by an Alumni Meet. Contact Convener:                   Dr.K.R.Santosh          skr56@yahoo.com Accommodation:      Dr.V.Madhu               madhuv@cusat.ac.in Alumni Meet:            Mr.B.Chakrapani        bcpani@gmail.com ...... come, let's have a get-together, cherish memories ..... and wish Rammohan sir one the eve.