Challenges and Opportunities in Agrometeorology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Attri, S.D (Editor), Rathore, L.S (Editor), Sivakumar, M.V.K (Editor), Dash, S.K (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Meteorology.; Atmospheric sciences.; Agriculture.; Earth Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.

The global food security and sustainable agriculture are the key challenges before the scientific community in the present era of enhanced climate variability, rapidly rising population and dwindling resources. No part of the world is immune from meteorological extremes of one sort or another posing...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents: Modernization of Observation and Forecasting System in IMD in support of Agromet Services
• Monthly and Seasonal Indian Summer Monsoon Simulated by RegCM3 at High Resolutions
• Simulation of Heavy Rainfall in Association with Extreme Weather Events: Impact on Agriculture
• Representation of Uncertainties in Seasonal Monsoon Predictions using a Global Climate Model
• Intra Seasonal Variability of Rainfall in India on Regional Basis
• Assimilation of Surface Observations in a High Resolution WRF Model
• An Evaluation of the Simulation of Monthly to Seasonal Summer Monsoon Rainfall over India with a Coupled Ocean Atmosphere General Circulation Operational Agrometeorological Strategies in Different Regions of the World
• Overview of the World Agrometeorological Information Service (WAMIS)
• Analysis of Rainfall Variability and Characteristics of Rainfed Rice Condition in Eastern India.