relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/3656/ title: Climatic classification: a consultants' meeting at ICRISAT Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India, 14-16 Apr 1980 creator: Virmani, S M creator: Sivakumar, M V K subject: Climate Change description: This proceedings consists of the following papers: welcome address ( Swindale, L.D.); need, relevance, and objectives of the consultants' meeting on climatic classification (Virmani, S.M.); first session: current concepts and approaches; climatic classification: concepts for dry tropical environments (Grove, A.T.); classification of semi-arid tropics: climatic and phytogeographic approaches (Meher-Homji, V.M.); use of principal component analysis in rational classification of climates (Gadgil, S; J oshi, N.V.); second session: a practical classification system for agriculture in the SAT: climatic classification of semi -arid tropics in relation to farming systems research (Vi rmani, S.M. ; Sivakumar, M.V.K.; Reddy, S.J.); climatic classification, agroclimatic resource assessment, and possibilities for application in the semi -arid tropics ( Williams, G.D.V.; Masterton, J.); agroclimatic classification methods and their application to India (Krishnan, A.); agroclimatic classification for assessment of crop potential and its application to and dry farming tract s of India ( Sarker, R.P.; Biswas, B.C.) publisher: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics contributor: Virmani, S M contributor: Sivakumar, M V K contributor: Rosenberg, G contributor: Kumble, V date: 1980 type: Book type: NonPeerReviewed format: application/pdf language: en identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/3656/1/Climatic_classification__A_Consultant_Meeting.pdf identifier: Virmani, S M and Sivakumar, M V K (1980) Climatic classification: a consultants' meeting at ICRISAT Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India, 14-16 Apr 1980. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics , Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India .