Calcium-rich zeolites control naturally occurring chemical degradation in the black soils (Vertisols and their intergrades). With the help of modern tools such as remote sensing, geographic information system, soil database, geological information, topography and other related datasets, an attempt was made to update the distribution of zeolitic soils in India. To ascertain the presence of Ca-ri...

Regional climate models (RCMs) are considered to be more useful than general circulation models for assessing impacts of climate change scenarios in agriculture. In this communication, the climatic outputs of an RCM–PRECIS (providing regional climates for impact studies) model were analysed by comparing its baseline simulation daily weather data on temperature and precipitation patterns with th...

One of the major sources of emission of green house gases (GHGs) is biomass burning. Thus the space-based observations of global distribution of fire form a key component of climate change studies. Several international programs have been established towards the goal of gaining complete information on fire activity around the world using space based observations. This study mainly highlights th...