TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.) 

ED  - Virmani, S M
ED  - Sivakumar, M V K
ED  - Rosenberg, G
ED  - Kumble, V
AV  - public
KW  - SEMI-ARID TROPICS ; CONFERENCES ; AGROCLIMATIC REGIONS ; CLASSIFICATION ; CLIMATE 

A1  - Virmani, S M
A1  - Sivakumar, M V K
TI  - Climatic classification: a consultants' meeting at ICRISAT Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India, 14-16 Apr 1980 
UR  - http://oar.icrisat.org/3656/
Y1  - 1980///
ID  - icrisat3656
EP  - 173
PB  - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics 
CY  - Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India 
ER  -