11.6.6 WRIC (Western Regional Instrumentation Centre) Considering the fact that instrumentation is a capital intensive interdisciplinary subject and that the WRIC is a national facility centre, it aims at building infrastructure to suit nationwide requirement in this area and to grow as a catalyst in providing leadership in the field of instrumentation. It envisages to develop some new facilities and upgrade it to an Inter University Centre.
11.6.7 Crystal Growth Centre The Centre proposes to create a Centre of National Significance, Upgrade the facilities with equipment, building, manpower and support, deliver application specific crystals and to interact with industries on research oriented towards applications during XIth Plan.
Crystal Growth Centre is proposed to be upgraded to Inter University Centre. The status will strengthen the ongoing programs and will also create better avenues to promote International Status of the Centre. The excellent facilities created over the past three decades can be put to more beneficial use for the research community all over the country if the present Centre is recognized and given the status of an Inter University Centre.
Utilization of the MST Radar, Lidar, Lower Atmospheric Wind Profiler (LAWP) and other facilities at NARL is planned to be enhanced through the addition of a few instruments. Research would be continued in the areas of Mesospheric dynamics, Precipitation studies using MST Radar, LAWP, Disdrometer and TRIMM, Boundary layer studies, rain attenuation and mobile communications, Gravity Waves, Aerosol characterization, Temperature field and its variability in middle atmosphere, Water vapour and troposphere cloud characterization using Raman Lidar and Mesospheric Sodium layers using Dye-Laser.
