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College of Agriculture / Climate Change & Agricultural Meteorology / Important Publications

Research Publications (NAAS Rating >6.00)
  1. Singh, Harkanwal Jot; Madane D.A., Pal R.K. and Reenu Sharma (2025). Geospatial assessment of paddy crop water requirement using remote sensing and GIS in semiarid Ludhiana area of Indian Punjab. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 156:210 (Impact Factor: 2.80) (NAAS Rating: 8.80).
  2. Singh Jatinderpal, Singh Som Pal, Kingra Pavneet Kaur, Biswas Barun, Mutiar Varinderjit Kaur and Singh Jaspal (2025). Comparative Evaluation of CERES-Maize, WOFOST-Maize, and Ensemble of Models for Predicting Maize Phenology, Growth, and Grain Yield. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis DOI: 1080/00103624.2025.2454010 (NAAS Rating: 7.30)
  3. Jatinderpal Singh, Barun Biswas and L K Dhaliwal (2025) Growing environments and cultivar selection limits wheat growth and yield potential in Punjab. Plant Science Today 12 (1): 1-13. (NAAS rating: 6.7)
  4. Jatinderpal Singh, Som Pal Singh, Barun Biswas, Varinderjit Kaur (2024) Optimizing maize production through sowing date, nitrogen levels, and cultivar selection in northwest region of India. Journal of Plant Nutrition47 (20), 3823-3843. (NAAS rating: 8.1)
  5. Anand Shubham, Sarabjot Kaur Sandhu, Barun Biswasand Ritu Bala (2024) Comparative analysis of diferent Karnal bunt disease prediction models developed by machine learning techniques for Punjab conditions. International Journal of Biometeorology 68(9):1799-1810. (NAAS rating: 9.20)
  6. Barun Biswas, Sunil Kashyap, Charanjeet Kaur and R S Bal (2024) Evaluating influence of weather on Ascochyta blight severity in chickpea using correlation network, regression and principal component analysis. Journal of Environmental Biology45 (5): 626-634. (NAAS rating: 6.7)
  7. Bora Sony, Kingra P K and Pal R K (2024). Hydro-thermal regimes and their impact on relative weather disparities and grain yield of wheat in central Punjab. Mausam 76 (2): 519-528. (NAAS Rating: 6.60)
  8. Dhir Abhishek, Pal R K, Kingra P K and Kaur Ramanjit (2024). Climate smart cotton (Gossypium herbaceum) crop production in Punjab: A comprehensive review of sustainable management practices. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 94(2): 119-128 (NAAS rating: 6.40)
  9. Dhir, A., Pal, R.K., Kingra, P.K. and Kaur, R. (2024). Climate-smart cotton (Gossypium herbaceum) crop production in Punjab: A comprehensive review of sustainable management practices. The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 94(2), 119-128. (NAAS Rating 6.40)
  10. Harmandeep Kaur, Jaspal Kaur, Ritu Bala, Puja Srivastava, Sandeep Raheja and Barun Biswas (2024) Evaluation of monogenic lines with known Lrgenes and commercial wheat cultivars for leaf rust (Puccinia triticina) resistance across different environments in Punjab, India. Cereal Research Communications 52:691–704. (NAAS rating: 7.6)
  11. Kaur Simranjeet, Mishra S K, Singh Kulvir, Pal R K, Gill K K and Kingra P K (2024). Enhancing crop and water productivity of Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) through drip irrigation and fertigation in semi-arid environments of south-western Punjab. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 94 (11): 1195-1200. (NAAS Rating: 6.40)
  12. Kaur Varinderjit, Singh Som Pal, Kingra P K and Singh Jatinderpal (2024). Climate change impact assessment of growing degree days and thermal growing period of cotton in north-west India. Journal of Water and Climate Change doi: 10.2166/wcc.2024.288 (NAAS Rating: 8.80)
  13. Kaur, J., Prabhjyot-Kaur, Sandhu, S.S. and Kothiyal, S. (2024) Is it trustworthy to use GCMs data for future climatic predictions? J. Global Warming 33(1) : 1–23. (NAAS rating: 6.90)
  14. Kaur, S.; Mishra, S.K.; Singh, Kulvir; Pal, R.K., Gill, K.K. and Kingra, P.K. (2024). Enhancing crop and water productivity of Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) through drip irrigation and fertigation in semi-arid environments of south-western Punjab. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 94 (11): 1195–1200, (NAAS Rating: 6.40)
  15. Anand Shubham, Sarabjot Kaur Sandhu and Parminder Singh Tak (2023) Effect of abiotic factors on pathotypes causing yellow and brown rust in wheat. J Agrometeorol 25(3):462-65. (NAAS rating: 6.00)
  16. Kaur A, Singh K B, Brar A S, Gupta R K and Kingra P K (2023). Interactive effect of nitrogen and irrigation on evapotranspiration, growth, yield and water productivity of subsurface drip-irrigated spring maize: Field and simulation studies. Irrigation and Drainage 1-20. DOI: 10.1002/ird.2812. (NAAS rating: 7.42)
  17. Garima, S S Sandhu, M S Bons, Amarjeet Kaur, Prabhjyot-Kaur, Simerjeet Kaur, K K Gill and S S Walia. (2023) Coupling the interactive effects of solar radiation, temperature and nitrogen on the performance of transplanted rice.   Agric. Science (Cambridge, UK): 161 (4): 521-535.    (NAAS rating: 8.60)
  18. Gill M.S., Gill P.P.S., Pal R.K. and Singh Navprem (2022). Mulching effects on soil temperature and yield of pear [Pyrus pyrifoila (Burm.) Nakai] in humid subtropical climate of Punjab 2022 MAUSAM, 73(4), 951-958. (NAAS Rating 6.91)
  19. Bons Harsimrat K. and Pal R.K. (2022). Survival of loquat under the subtropical conditions of Punjab, Journal of Agrometeorology, 24(3): 321-324. (NAAS Rating 6.00)
  20. Bopche Usaka, Kingra P K, Setia R and Singh Som Pal (2022). Spatio-temporal analysis of meteorological drought in Punjab under past, present and future climate change scenarios. Arabian Journal of Geosciences https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-022-10025-5 (NAAS rating: 7.83)
  21. Jatinder Kaur, Prabhjyot-Kaur and Shivani Kothiyal. (2022) Futuristic changes in monthly meteorological parameters as simulated by four GCMs under four emission based scenarios at Ludhiana, Punjab. Arabian J of Geosciences 15: 906https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-022-10199-y (NAAS rating: 7.83)
  22. Anurag Malik, Yazid Tikhamarine, Shamsuddin Shahid, Harkanwaljot Singh Sekhon, Raj Kumar Pal, Priya Rai, Kusum Pandey, Ahmed Elbeltagi, Saad Shauket Sammen (2021). Daily Pan-Evaporation Estimation in Different Agro-Climatic Zones Using Novel Hybrid Support Vector Regression Optimized by Salp Swarm Algorithm in Conjunction with Gamma Test, Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 15(1): 1075-1094. (Impact Factor: 8.391)
  23. B S Dhillon, Gurpreet Kaur, G S Mangat and Prabhjyot-Kaur. (2021) Influence of seedling age on growth, productivity and heat use efficiency of rice genotypes in North West India. J of Agrometeorology 23(1):30-37. (NAAS rating 6.47)
  24. Dhir Abhishek, Pal R K, Kingra P K, Mishra S K and Sandhu S S (2021). Cotton phenology and production response to sowing time, row orientation and plant spacing using CROPGRO-cotton model. Mausam 72(3): 627-634. (NAAS Rating: 6.37)
  25. Grover Karanjot Singh, Pal R K, Kingra P K and Mishra S K (2021). The effect of heat and moisture stress on wheat and possible mitigation strategies using CERES-wheat model. Mausam 72 (2): 435-442. (NAAS rating: 6.37)
  26. Harpreet Singh, Prabhjyot-Kaur, S K Bal and B U Choudary. (2021) Effect of elevated temperature on green gram [Vigna radiata (I).Wilczek] performance under temperature gradient tunnel (TGT) environment in Punjab. J of Agrometeorology 23(1):3-13. (NAAS rating 6.47)
  27. Jaspal Singh and Prabhjyot-Kaur. (2021) Formulation of “weekly and monthly thumb rule models” for prediction of potential productivity of sunflower in Punjab. J of Agrometeorology 23(2):176-182.   (NAAS rating 6.47)
  28. Jatinder Kaur, Prabhjyot-Kaur and Samanpreet Kaur. (2021) Projected changes in temperature and rainfall during 21st century simulated by CSIRO-Mk-3-6-0 model under RCP based scenarios in Punjab. Mausam 72(3): 649-660.(NAAS rating:6.37)
  30. Kaur Harleen, Kingra P K, Singh Ramandeep, Kaur Samanpreet and Singh Som Pal (2022) Simulation of climate change impact on water productivity of maize in central Punjab. Mausam 73 (3): 673-682 (NAAS rating: 6.37)
  31. Kaur Gurpreet, Singh Som Pal, Setia R K and Kingra P K (2021) Delineation of maize growing areas vis-à-vis climate and technology using statistical and geospatial techniques in Punjab. Journal of Agrometeorology 23 (1): 93-99. (NAAS rating: 6.47)
  32. Kaur J, Kaur N, Sandhu Sarabjot Kaur and Kaur, H (2023) Microclimate and thermal indices of garden pea (Pisum sativum) under poplar (Populus deltoids Bartr.) based agroforestry system. J Agromet25(2): 330-332. (NAAS rating: 6.00)
  33. Kaur Navneet, Singh Manmohanjit and Kaur Sukhjeet (2022) Long term monthly and inter-seasonal weather variability analysis for lower Shivalik foothills of Punjab. Mausam 73(1):173-80. (NAAS Rating: 6.64)
  34. Kingra P K, Aatralarasi S, Setia R, Kukal S S and Singh Som Pal (2020) Computation of reference evapotranspiration, its variability and trends in different agroclimatic regions of Punjab. Journal of Agrometeorology 22 (2): 226-232. (NAAS rating: 6.64)
  35. Kuldeep Kaur and Prabhjyot-Kaur. 2022. Evaluating the impact of intra-seasonal change in temperature and solar radiation on phenology and yield of rice using CERES-rice model in Punjab. Mausam 73(2): 423-432. (NAAS rating:6.64)
  36. Lal Devi, Singh Som Pal, Kingra P K and Niwas Ram (2022) Assessing the dcadal features of rainfall and its probability in Punjab. Shorter Communication. Mausam 73 (3): 683-688 (NAAS rating: 6.37)
  37. Loveleen K Brar, Pushp Sharma , Priya Chugh , Prabhjyot-Kaur , Rajni Sharma and S S Banga. (2022) Effect of elevated temperature on phenology, growth, yield components and seed yield of Brassica juncea grown in temperature gradient tunnels (TGT). J of Agrometeorology 24(4): 359-366.            (NAAS rating 6.55)
  38. Majumder Atin, Setia Raj, Kingra P K, Sembhi Harjinder, Singh Som Pal and Pateriya Brijendra (2021). Estimation of land surface temperature using different retrieval methods to study the spatio-temporal variations of surface urban heat and cold islands in Indian Punjab. Environment, Development and Sustainability https:’’doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01321-3 (NAAS Rating: 8.14)
  39. Mandeep Pathania, R.K. Pal, Sanjeev Kumar, Subash Singh and Paramjit Singh (2020). Seasonal incidence of whitefly (Bemisia tabaci Gennadius) and jassid (Amrasca bigutulla bigutulla Ishida) on transgenic cotton in south-western Punjab, India, Journal of Agrometeorology, 22 (4) : 545-550. (NAAS Rating: 6.64)
  40. Jalota S K, Kaur Prabhjyot, Kaur Jatinder, Kingra P K and Vashisht B B (2020). Critical anysis of temporal climate change and ensuing frequency of crop yield constraining temperatures. Journal of Agrometeorology 22(3): 337-350. (NAAS Rating: 6.64)
  41. Manhas Upasana, Singh Som Pal, Kingra P K, Setia R K and Sharma Rajni (2022). Delineation of thermal requirements of Rice (Oryza sativa L ) using Geospatial Technology in Punjab. Journal of Agrometeorology 24(1): 90-94. (NAAS rating: 6.55)
  42. Murria Sarah, Gupta Namrata, Kingra P K, Sharma Anju Bala, Bhardwaj Ruchika and Kaur Nirmaljit (2022). Influence of agro-meteorological variables on downy mildew development in pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum(L.) R. Br.). Journal of Agrometeorology 24 (1): 113-116 (NAAS rating: 6.55)
  43. Navjot Gupta, Raj Kumar Pal, Amardeep Kour and S.K. Mishra (2020). Thermal unit requirement of grape (Vitis vinifera ) varieties under south western Punjab conditions, Journal of Agrometeorology 22 (4) : 469-476. (NAAS Rating: 6.64)
  44. Patra, S. K., Poddar, R., Brestic, M., Acharjee P. U., Bhattacharya P., Sengupta S., Pal P., Bam N., Biswas B., Skalicky M. and Hossain A. (2022). Prospects of Hydrogels in Agriculture for Enhancing Crop and Water Productivity under Water Deficit Condition. International Journal of Polymer Science.2022 (Article ID 4914836): 1-15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/4914836 [IF: 2.642]
  45. Prabhjyot-Kaur, Vijay Kumar, S S Sandhu and Harpreet Singh. (2021) Weather based model for forewarning incidence of whitefly (Bemisia tabaci Gennadius) in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) in Punjab. J of Agrometeorology 23(4): 476-480. (NAAS rating 6.47)
  46. Prabhjyot-Kaur, S S Sandhu and Abhishek Dhir. (2024) Mitigation and risk management of climate change in crop cultivation through the adoption of Agromet Advisory Bulletin (AAB) in NICRA-adopted villages in Punjab. Mausam 75(1):  249-256.  (NAAS rating:6.91)
  47. Prabhjyot-Kaur, S S Sandhu and Shivani Kothiyal. (2024) Optimising sowing window for wheat cultivars under RCP 4.5 and RCP 6.0 scenarios during the 21st century in Indian Punjab. of Agronomy and Crop Science 210(4): e12711 (NAAS rating: 9.50)
  48. Prabhjyot-Kaur, Samanpreet Kaur, Abhishek Dhir, Harsimran Kaur and B B Vashisht. 2024. Agro-Eco-Resource Zonation (AERZ) for sustainable agriculture using GIS and AHP techniques in Indian Punjab. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 155(8) :8047–8066.       (NAAS rating: 9.40)
  49. Singh Yashi, Kingra P K and Singh Som Pal (2024). Spatio-temporal variability in fire events due to crop residue burning and their impact on atmospheric variables using ground and remote sensing data in Punjab. Mausam 75(4): 955-976. (NAAS Rating: 6.60)
  50. Prabhjyot-Kaur, S S Sandhu, Shivani Kothiyal and Jatinder Kaur. (2023) An assessment of adaptation measures to enhance wheat productivity under climate change during early, mid and end of 21st century in Indian Punjab. Agric. Science (Cambridge, UK): 161 (4): 477-487. (NAAS rating: 8.60)
  51. Sunil Kumar, Rakesh Sharda, Pooja Goyal, Mukesh Siag and Prabhjyot-Kaur. (2023) Reference Evapotranspiration Modelling Using Artificial Neural Networks Under Scenarios of Limited Weather Data: A Case Study in the Malwa Region of Punjab. Environmental Modelling & Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10666-023-09930-0 (NAAS rating: 8.02)
  52. Sandhu Sarabjot Kaur and Prabhjyot-Kaur. (2023) A case study on the changing pattern of monsoon rainfall duration and its amount during the recent five decades in different agroclimatic zones of Punjab state of India. Mausam 74(3):651-662 https://doi.org/10.54302/mausam.v74i3.5331       (NAAS rating:6.91)
  53. Shivani Kothiyal, Prabhjyot-Kaur and Jatinder Kaur. (2023) A critical analysis of effect of projected temperature and rainfall for differential sowing of maize cultivars under RCP4.5 and RCP6.0 scenarios for Punjab. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 151 :329–354  https://do.i.org/10.1007/s00704-022-04291-2    (NAAS rating: 9.41)
  54. Shivani Kothiyal, Prabhjyot-Kaur, S S Sandhu and Jatinder Kaur. (2023) Modelling the climate change impact of mitigation (RCP 2.6) and high emission (RCP 8.5) scenario on maize yield and possible adaptation measures in different agroclimatic zones of Punjab, India. J of the Science of Food and Agriculture 103: 6984-6994.                (NAAS rating: 10.13)
  55. Shivani Kothiyal, Prabhjyot-Kaur, S S Sandhu and Jatinder Kaur. (2023) Modelling viable adaptive options under climate change scenarios to increase maize productivity in Indian Punjab. Arabian Journal of Geosciences 16:403 (NAAS rating: 6.00)
  56. Singh Ramalpreet, Pal, R.K., Gill, K.K., Mishra, S.K. and Kaur, Anureet (2022). Validation of medium range weather forecasts and its economic impact on cotton-wheat cropping system in South-Western Punjab. MAUSAM, 73(4): 915-928. (NAAS Rating 6.91)
  57. Sandhu Sarabjot Kaur, Attri, Anurag and Bala, Ritu (2022) Effect of meteorological parameters on Karnal bunt incidence in wheat under different agroclimatic zones of Punjab. J of Agrometeorol 24 (1):66-71. (NAAS rating: 6.55).
  58. Sukhjeet Kaur, Prabhjyot-Kaur and Harleen Kaur. (2022) The role of meteorological parameters in determining yield of rice cultivated under flooded transplanted conditions in Ludhiana district – A case study. J of Agrometeorology 24(3): 299-304.
  59. Yadav B.K. and Pal R.K. (2022). Effect of weather variability on soil temperature, enzyme activities and nutrient availability under pear tree orchard in semi-arid condition. MAUSAM, 73(2): 405-412. (NAAS Rating 6.64)
  60. Singh H, Mishra S K, Singh K, Singh K, Pal R K, Gill K K and Kingra P K (2021). Simulating the impact of climate change on sugarcane production in Punjab. Journal of Agrometeorology 23(3): 292-298 (NAAS rating: 6.47)
  61. Singh Harkanwaljot, Kingra P K, Pal R K and Singh Som Pal (2021). Growth response and water production functions of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under abiotic stresses in central and south-western Punjab. Mausam 72(4): 887-896 (NAAS rating: 6.37)
  62. Singh Harkanwaljot, Kingra P K, Pal R K and Singh Som Pal (2021). Altering microclimate of wheat (Triticum aestivum) by adjusting sowing dates, irrigation and nitrogen application in semi-arid and arid agroclimatic conditions of Punjab. Journal of Agrometeorology 23(3): 272-278 (NAAS rating: 6.47)
  63. Singh Harkanwaljot, Kingra P K, Pal R K and Singh Som Pal (2021). Improving heat use efficiency of wheat (Triticum aestivum) in semi-arid and arid agroclimatic conditions of Punjab. Mausam 72(3): 673-680. (NAAS rating: 6.37)
  64. Sekhon H S, Setia R, Sing Som Pal, Kingra P K, Ansari J (2021). Spatio-temporal analysis of the relationship between climate variables and water logging using satellite remote sensing. Arabian Journal of Geosciences 14: 1306. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-021-07653-8 (NAAS rating: 7.33)
  65. Sandhu Sarabjot Kaur, Tak, Parminder Singh and Pannu, P. P. S. (2021) Forewarning of stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis) of wheat in central zone of Punjab. J of Agrometeorol 23 (4) : 435-441. (NAAS rating: 6.47).
  66. Buttar P S, Kingra P K, Pal R K, Singh Som Pal and Kaur Samanpreet (2021) Analysing water productivity response to sowing window, irrigation level and mulching using CERES-Wheat model. Journal of Agrometeorology 23(3): 286-291. (NAAS rating: 6.47)
  67. Prabhjyot-Kaur Sandhu S S, Dhillon B S and H Singh. (2021) Rice yield variability in Punjab – an overview of five decades. Paddy and Water Environment 19(4):673-681
  68. Raj Kumar Pal (2020). Impact of varying nitrogen levels on seed cotton yield using CRO PGRO – cotton model for South-Western region of Punjab, Journal of Agrometeorology, 22(special issue), 222-228. (NAAS Rating: 6.64)
  69. Dhaliwal L K, Buttar G S, Kingra P K and Kaur Sukhjeet (2020). Growth, yield and water use efficiency of wheat under different sowing dates, planting methods and irrigation treatments. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 90 (3): 519-523. (NAAS rating: 6.23)
  70. Dhir Abhishek, Pal R K, Kingra P K and Mishra S K (2020). Microclimatic conditions and seed cotton yield as affected by sowing time, row orientation and plant spacing under Bt cotton hybrid. Mausam 71(4): 729-738. (NAAS Rating: 6.24)
  71. S S Sandhu, Prabhjyot-Kaur, K K Gill and B B Vashisth. (2020) The effect of recent climate shifts on optimal sowing windows for wheat in Punjab, India. J Water Climate Change 11(4): 1177–90. (NAAS rating: 7.01)
  72. Sandhu SS, Prabhjyot-Kaur and K K Gill. (2020) Change in timing of occurrence of temperature extremes in central Punjab. J of Agrometeorology 22 (Spl. Issue): 155-162. (NAAS rating 6.64)
  73. Jatinder Kaur, Prabhjyot-Kaur and Samanpreet Kaur. (2020) Analyzing uncertainties amongst the seventeen GCMs for prediction of temperature, rainfall and solar radiation in central irrigated plains in Punjab. J of Agrometeorology 22 (Spl. Issue): 15-23. (NAAS rating 6.64)