Course Code: WMA 507
Course Title: Agrometeorology IV
Number of Units: 3 Units
Course Duration: 3 hours per week
Course Details:
Course Coordinator: Prof N.J. Bello. B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD
Email: njbello2003@yahoo.com
Office Location: Room B209, COLERM
Other Lecturers:
Course Synopsis
Quantitative characterization of plants climatic environment. Statistical concept in plant climate relationship. Assessment of moisture and thermal Agro-meteorological indices for agriculture: predicting the onset, cessation and duration of the rains, rainfall variability, rainfall seasonality and precipitation effectiveness. Climatological assessment of water resources and soil loss. The concept of potential Evapo-transpiration, crop moisture
requirements and irrigation need: methods of improving water use efficiency. Concept of photosynthetic active radiation (PAR) and efficiency of energy conversion. Measurement of photosynthesis in the field, Quantification of crop yield-climate relationships under different management inputs; Pearson product moment correlation, simple linear regression analysis, principle component and factors analysis. Elementary stochastic models.