Fundamental of Agricultural Meteorology and Climate Science

Fundamentals of Agricultural Meteorology and Climate Science It is concerned with the weather and climate study in connection with crop growth development and productivity. In the context of climate variability ever-increasing frequency of extreme weather occurrences and rising demands for sustainable food production knowledge of agricultural meteorology has never been so important.The book is prepared with a view to giving students researchers extension personnel and farmers a generalized but simplified understanding of the principles and applications of agricultural meteorology. The chapters deal with basic concepts involving solar radiation temperature humidity wind and precipitation as well as applied topics such as crop-weather relationships agroclimatic zoning microclimate management crop forecasting and climate change effects on agriculture.