Rice is the main staple food of country but crop productivity in some years declines due to erratic monsoon and non-uniformity spatial temporal distribution rainfall. Hence, assessing rice advance using meteorological plant physiological attributes will be helpful for planners take decision on contingency measures. In this investigation, dry biomass early phenophases (active tillering, panicle ...

Clouds are the largest modulators of the solar radiative flux reaching the Earth’s surface. The amount and type of cloud cover prevailing at a given time and location largely determines the amount and type of solar radiation received at the Earth’s surface. This cloud radiative forcing is different for the different solar spectral bands. In this work, we analysed the influence of cloud radiativ...

Biomass accumulation of di€erent grass species can be quanti®ed by leaf area index (LAI) development, the Beer±Lambert light interception function, and a species-speci®c radiation-use eciency (RUE). The object of this ®eld study was to compare RUE values and leaf CO2 exchange rates (CER) for four C4 grasses. Biomass, LAI, and fraction of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) intercepted we...