Practical Agrometeorology

Practical Agrometeorology

Contents 1 Introduction to agrometeorological observatory 2 Description of instruments in agrometeorological observatory 3 Measurement of air temperature 4 Measurement of soil temperature 5 Measurement and estimation of relative humidity 6 Measurement of wind speed and direction 7 Measurement of bright sunshine hours 8 Measurement of atmospheric pressure 9 Measurement of rainfall 10 Measurement of evaporation 11 Measurement of transpiration 12 Measurement of evapotranspiration 13 Estimation of potential evapotranspiration 14 Radiation measuring instruments 15 Estimation of net radiation 16 Mesurement of photosynthetically active radiation PAR 17 Measurement of crop canopy temperature 18 Meaurement of leaf area index 19 Automatic weather station 20 Agrometeorological data management system 21 Estimation of heat indices 22 Rainfall analysis for crop planning 23 Climatic water balance 24 Crop water balance 25 Instruments and tools for weather forecasting 26 Crop weather modelling 27 Cloud and weather forecasting 28 Verification of medium range weather forecast Glossary Question bank For proper application of Agro-meteorological techniques the knowledge of basic principles of measurement of meteorological and agro meteorological instruments is of paramount importance Accordingly an attempt has been made in this book to include all the instruments measuring weather parameters and most of the methods of computing derived meteorological indices used to the research purposes With the development of technology sophisticated and costly instruments measuring weather plant and soil parameters availableThe use care maintenance and installation of the instruments need special training and knowledge In all there are 28 exercises dealing with instruments directly measuring the weather parameters plant parameters and indirectly computing agro meteorological indices using measured meteorological parameters This book is aimed primarily for students and agricultural scientists to understand the techniques of agricultural meteorology and its application in agricultural sciences jacket 198 pp. Artikel-Nr. 100011

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