Introductory Agro Meteorology and Climate Change
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Dr. Supradip Sarkar
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Course Name : Introductory Agro Meteorology and Climate change
Code(Credit) : ASAG1202(1-1-0)
Program outcome
COs Course outcomes Mapping COs with POs
CO1 Enhancement of students’ knowledge on working out critical value of weather parameters on growth rate of any crop PO1
CO2 Students can efficiently handle the database on ‘crop-weather relationships’ PO2
CO3 Expertise on climate resilience agriculture motivate students towards entrepreneurship PO3
PO1: Knowledge Enhancement
PO2: Professional Enhancement
PO3: Entrepreneurship Skills
PO4: Communication & Extension Skill
Course Objectives
- To study about different climatic factors affecting crop growth and development
- To make proper understanding on crop-weather relationship.
- To assess productivity level of major crops during future climate-change scenario.
Course Outcome
- Enhancement of students’ knowledge on working out critical value of weather parameters on growth rate of any crop.
Students can efficiently handle the database on ‘crop-weather relationships’.
Entrepreneurship Skills: Expertise on climate resilience agriculture motivate students towards entrepreneurship.
Course Syllabus
Theory
Earth atmosphere- its composition, extent and structure; Atmospheric weather variables; Atmospheric pressure, its variation with height; Wind, types of wind, daily and seasonal variation of wind speed, cyclone, anticyclone, land breeze and sea breeze; Nature and properties of solar radiation, solar constant, depletion of solar radiation, short wave, longwave and thermal radiation, net radiation, albedo; Atmospheric temperature, temperature inversion, lapse rate, daily and seasonal variations of temperature, vertical profile of temperature, Energy balance of earth; Atmospheric humidity, concept of saturation, vapor pressure, process of condensation, formation of dew, fog, mist, frost, cloud;
Precipitation, process of precipitation, types of precipitation such as rain, snow, sleet, and hail, cloud formation and classification; Artificial rainmaking. Monsoon- mechanism and importance in Indian agriculture, Weather hazards - drought, floods, frost, tropical cyclones and extreme weather conditions such as heat-wave and cold-wave.Agriculture and weather relations; Modifications of crop microclimate, climatic normals for crop and livestock production. Weather forecasting- types of weather forecast and their uses. Climate change, climatic variability, global warming, causes of climate change and its impact on regional and national Agriculture.
Practical:
Visit of Agrometeorological Observatory, site selection of observatory, exposure of instruments and weather data recording. Measurement of total, shortwave and longwave radiation, and its estimation using Planck’s intensity law.Measurement of albedo and sunshine duration, computation of Radiation
Intensity using BSS. Measurement of maximum and minimum air temperatures, its tabulation, trend and variation analysis.Measurement of soil temperature and computation of soil heat flux.Determination of vapor pressure and relative humidity.Determination of dew point temperature.Measurement of atmospheric pressure and analysis of atmospheric conditions.Measurement of wind speed and wind direction, preparation of windrose. Measurement,tabulation and analysis of rain.Measurement of open pan evaporation and evapotranspiration. Computation of PET and AET.
References
1. ICAR e-Course on Principles of Agronomy & Agricultural Meteorology
2. Mavi, HS. and Tupper, GJ. 2004. Agrometeorology Principles and Applications of Climate Studies in Agriculture.Food Products Press, New York.
3. Radha Krishna Murthy, V. 2002. Basic Principles of Agricultural meteorology, B.S. Publications, Koti, Hyderabad.
4. Radha Krishna Murthy, V. 2016. Principles and Practices of agricultural disaster management, B.S. Publications, Koti, Hyderabad.
5. Ram Niwas, Surender Singh, Diwan Singh, ML Khichar and Raj Singh. 2006. A Text Book On Agricultural Meteorology. CCSHAU, Hisar.
6. Reddy, S.R. 2014. Introduction to Agriculture and Agrometeorology. Kalyani Publishers, Ludhiana, Punjab.
Session Plan
Session 1
Session 2
Atmospheric weather variables,Atmospheric pressure and it's variation with height<
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Session 3
Wind, types of wind, daily and seasonal variation of wind speed
Session 5
Nature and properties of solar radiation, solar constant, depletion of solar radiation, short wave, long wave and thermal radiation, net radiation
Session 6
Atmospheric temperature, temperature inversion, lapse rate, daily and seasonal variations of temperature, vertical profile of temperature, Energy balance of earth
Session 7
Atmospheric humidity, concept of saturation, vapor pressure, process of condensation
Session 8
Precipitation, process of precipitation, types of precipitation such as rain, snow, sleet, and hail, cloud formation and classification, Artificial rainmaking.
Session 9
Precipitation, process of precipitation, types of precipitation such as rain, snow, sleet, and hail, cloud formation and classification, Artificial rainmaking.
Session 11
Weather hazards - drought, floods, frost, tropical cyclones and extreme weather conditions such as heat-wave and cold-wave.Agriculture and weather relations; Modification of crop microclimate
Session 13
Climate change, climatic variabilty, global warming, causes of climate change and it's impact on regional and national agriculture
Session 14
Climate change, climatic variabilty, global warming, causes of climate change and it's impact on regional and national agriculture
Session 15
Climate change, climatic variabilty, global warming, causes of climate change and it's impact on regional and national agriculture
Session 16
Climate change, climatic variabilty, global warming, causes of climate change and it's impact on regional and national agriculture
Practical
Our Main Teachers
Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy, M.S. Swaminathan School of Agriculture, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, India