About the Authors:
V. Radha Krishna Murthy, Ph.D,
PGDES is Professor & Head, Department of Agronomy, Agricultural College,
ANGRAU, Bapatla. He has to his credit 22 books, 7 book chapters, over 110 peer
reviewed scientific articles, papers presented in seminars, symposia and
popular articles. He travelled all continents on operational agrometeorological
services. He coined the term "weather heath" and working on "weather
health indices". He is International Agrometeorologist with World Bank,
Washington, USA and Expert Team member of World Meteorological Organization
Geneva, Switzerland for 15 years.
M. Sree Rekha, Ph.D is Associate
Professor in the Department of Agronomy, Agricultural College, ANGRAU, Bapatla.
She co-authored a book on agrometeorology and has over 30 peer reviewed
scientific articles, papers presented in seminars, symposia, popular articles
etc. She guided 7 students for their Masters thesis . She is also actively
working at present on weather health indices and weather analysis for 7
locations in Andhra Pradesh, a pioneering work on operational agrometeorology
in Andhra Pradesh. |
