4. Applied Climatology

Weather and climate are important factors in determining our day to day and longer term activities and life styles. The ways in which the climatic elements affect every form of economic and social activity are now receiving increasing attention from climatologists. ‘It is since second world war that new consciousness arose about the potentialities of climatology as an active subject with immense practical utility for planning almost all human requirements ranging from the development of water resources to the eradication of diseases.