Agrometeorology is an interdisciplinary holistic science. It cuts across scientific disciplines and bridges physical and biological sciences. It has numerous applications in agricultural resource utlization and management and has progressed rapidly both in content and applications. Currently, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, much research work has been published in scientific journals on different themes of agrometeorology, but few books are yet available in which agrometeorological principles, techniques, and applications have been presented in a systematic manner. The increasing utility of the subject, with an ample availability of literature that lies scattered in journals of various scientific disciplines, demands quality books in which the entire subject matter is dealt with in an appropriate sequence. This book is a step toward that objective-to make available a text and reference book in agrometeorology.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Graeme J. Tupper
Mr. Graeme J. Tupper is Technical Specialist, Resource Information, in the NSW Department of Agriculture, australia. His work involves research, development, and service projects in the application of spatial information technology to agriculture. Specific projects include monthly rainfall "drought" mapping, fire and flood mapping and monitoring, monitoring endemic livestock diseases, weed detection and mapping research, and water reform structural adjustment mapping. Mr. Tupper is an agricultural scientist and has worked in this capacity in research, academic, and extension institutions in Australia, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, and the United States, in environments ranging from semi-arid rangelands through temperate to tropical agriculture.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Harpal S. Mavi
Dr. Harpal S. Mavi is a climate risk management consultant in Sydney, australia. His work involves research in climate impacts on crops, insect-pests and crop diseases, and strategies for climate related risk management. Before going into consultancy services, he was an agroclimatologist in the New South Wales Department of Agriculture. Earlier, he was Professor of Agrometeorology at Punjab Agricultural University in India where he taught climatology and agrometeorology for over two decades. Dr. Mavi has been the research supervisor of twenty postgraduate students majoring in agrometeorology. In addition, he has been on the research advisory committee of scores of students majoring in agronomy, soil science, soil and water engineering, entomology, plant pathology, and botany. He has advised mumerous individuals, and organizations in climate-related risk management.
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