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The climate system as a whole is an extremely complex mix of different subsystems all interacting with each oth er on a wide range of time and space scales, e.g. the atmosphere, oceans, ice masses and the biosphere. The potential for variability from year to year and decade to decade, therefore, is very high. Given this high level of ‘internal’ variability, the significance or even the reality of possible external influences from sunspots, phases of the moon and so on, remains highly questionable on time scales shorter than millennia. The multi-disciplinary approach of the problem requires appreciation level knowledge of the rainfall processes that involve many of the countries disseminate rainfall, temperature and forecast information of the day in print (newspapers), visual (television) and audio (radio) media, internet (web site) and SMS (Short Message Services through mobile telephone). The people whose activities are related to weather such as farmers, agriculturists, farm extension workers and others anxiously wait for information with a view to prepare themselves on a regular basis. The cloud information is taken from the satellite images (coarse ground resolution), temperature and rainfall (installation points) and their forecast is based along with other weather-related parameters. Hence, there is a need to understand the cloud and their rainfall probability in deciding whether to irrigate now or wait for a day and the necessary resources to be arranged at field level.
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Nagarajan, R. (2009). Meteorology. In: Drought Assessment. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2500-5_2
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