Guide to Agricultural Meteorological Practices (GAMP)2010 Edition (WMO-No.134)

Guide to Agricultural Meteorological Practices (GAMP)

2010 Edition (WMO-No.134)

Updated in 2012

The Guide to Agricultural Meteorological Practices has been completely revised and updated with the 2010 Edition. The aim of the Guide is to provide, in a convenient form, information regarding the most important practices and procedures in agricultural meteorology. New updates will be published as needed and will incorporate only minor editing and formatting changes. New editions will be published when there are significant revisions to the Guide. The new editions and updates will be denoted by the year that they are updated or revised.

For any comments on the Guide, please send an email to the WMO Agricultural Meteorology Division at agm@wmo.int.

A complete PDF version of the Guide can be downloaded here (24 MB).

2010 Edition - Updated in 2012 (PDF)

Chapter	Title
-	Cover and Table of Contents
-	Preface, List of Contributors and Acknowledgements
1	General
2	Agricultural Meteorological Elements And Their Observations
3	Agricultural Meteorological Data, Their Presentation and Statistical Analysis
4	Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Agrometeorology
5	Weather And Climate Forecasts For Agriculture
6	Agrometeorlogical Forecasting
7	Climate and Weather Risk Assessment for Agricultural Planning
8	Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture
9	Applications of Meteorology to Agriculture
10	Agrometeorology of Some Selected Crops 10.1 - Cotton 10.2 - Groundnuts 10.3 - Maize 10.4 - Pearl Millet 10.5 - Potato 10.6 - Rice 10.7 - Sorghum 10.8 - Wheat
11	Applications of Meteorology to Forestry and Non-forest Trees
12	Weather and Climate and Animal Production
13	Application of Agrometeorology to Aquaculture and Fisheries
14	Agrometeorological Aspects of Desertification
15	Aerobiology
16	Application of Climatic Resources in Mountainous Areas
17	Communicating Agroclimatological Information, including Forecasts, for Agricultural Decisions
Appendix I	Bibliography of Literature on Agricultural Meteorology
Appendix II	List of periodicals of interest to agricultural meteorologists
Appendix III	List of International Organizations of Interest to Agricultural Meteorologists
Appendix VI	List of Agricultural Meteorological Societies