This guide is full of practical information about climate, health, hotels and travel. It describes briefly the history, geography and peoples of the area. It describes all the places which the local resident or visitor will want to see, some of which are internationally famous and many others of...
1983-01-19 This book is divided into three parts. The first includes frontal cyclones, blizzards, severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, lightning and hailstorms. This section acquaints the reader with the nature of such weather events and places some emphasis on dealing with the hazards associated with each of...
1977-01-19 This book examines characteristics of tropical rainfall and evaporation, together with their implications, especially related to agriculture, land use and aspects such as soil erosion and irrigation.
1974-01-01 This summary of what is known about microclimatic environments and the effects of climate on plant growth presents a comprehensive statement on the complex relationship between climate and agriculture. There isan updated 2017 version. 304 pages, graphs
This reference provides a framework for assessing the weather's impact on world crop production by providing benchmark climate and crop data for key regions. For each major crop, maps define the key production regions and pinpoint production concentrations within the region.
1979-01-01 Theobject of this publication is to illustrate a method deriving the best production periods for given crops from minimal amount of environmental information. The required data can generally be found for most locations, even in the tropics. Where exact data is lacking the relative magnitude or...
1995-01-01 This workbook documents one of the first farmer-participatory applied research projects based entirely in Kenya's marginal lands and includes a simple theoretical background to the topics researched as well as detailed suggestions on how to take the work forward. This book is designed for easy...