Agroclimatology is concerned with the interaction between climatological and hydrological factors, on the one hand, and agriculture in the broad sense, including animal husbandry and forestry, on the other. Its aim is to apply climatological information for the purpose of improving farming practices and increasing agricultural productivity in quantity and in quality. Because climatic effects on animal adaptation and forestry are less complicated and less amenable to manipulation than those on crops, research in agroclimatology has been concentrated largely in the latter area.
Agroclimatology and agrometeorology share nearly the same aim – scope and methodology. However, in their application the latter tends to emphasize weather forecasting in dealing with daily problems, whereas the former is more concerned with the use of mean data as a guide to long-range planning.
Problems in agroclimatology may be grouped into four major categories.
land use planning, i.e. selecting ecologically...
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Chang, J.H. (1998). Agroclimatology . In: Hydrology and Lakes. Encyclopedia of Earth Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4513-1_10
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