Climate and Climate System: Principles, Scales, Energy and Water Budget; Global and local circulation models; Natural variability and anthropogenic climate change; Global warming and its inter-relationship with climate change, Sea level rise, Fresh water resources, land use/land cover, crops, productivity; Climate Dataset from operational satellite, Atmospheric data assimilation, earth observation system and simulated dataset for climatic study; Parameterization of land-atmosphere, ocean interaction, Climate models and its validation.

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