The Monsoon Trough Boundary Layer

Editors:	R Narasimha D R Sikka A Prabhu
Price:	India      -   Rs. 350 Abroad  -  US$ 40 (including air-mail postage)

This volume presents a collection of 23 papers on the results of the Monsoon Trough Boundary Layer Experiment  MONTBLEX 90  carried out during the summer of 1990.  Many cyclonic vortices are formed in the neighbourhood of the trough during the monsoons and its position is closely associated with the pattern of rainfall over northern India.  The papers in the volume cover various aspects of the monsoon trough boundary layer, including its thermal and wind structure, problems in modelling them, and the associated eddy fluxes of momentum and sensible heat.
 
 
 

This special volume deals with selected topics relating to biogeochemical processes in the Arabian Sea, bringing together a critical mass of information about these processes, specially those which have been highlighted from recent studies in the Arabian Sea and in the equatorial Indian Ocean, and are relevant to the Joint Global Flux Study.
 
 
 
 
 

    The unique "isotopic signatures" that characterize the various earth and planetary reservoirs make "isotope cosmo-geochemistry" a powerful tool to study the past and contemporary physical, chemical and dynamical processes governing the evolution of "Earth" and other solar system objects.  New ideas coupled with major advances in the detection and measurement of these isotopic signatures have led to significant strides in this field over the last two decades.  Research in "isotope geochemistry" was initiated in the mid-1950s with  a focus on the applications of cosmic ray produced isotopes to understand the time scales of atmospheric and marine processes and studies of Sr-isotopes to characterize crustal silicates.  Over the years, studies in this newly emerging area have considerably expanded through the use of additional isotope tracers in diverse fields of research, such as, the early evolution of solar system objects, cosmic ray pre-history, origin and evolution of the continental flood basalts, geochemical cycles of elements, geomorphology, ocean circulation, palaeoclimate and catastrophic events in the earth's history.
    This special volume contains three plenary and sixteen invited papers presented at the International Conference on "Isotopes in the solar system" held at the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad in November 1997.  Five of these papers cover topics in isotope geology and geochemistry, followed by several papers on palaeoclimate records on different time scales and on the chemistry and dynamics of the river-ocean system.  A series of papers  dealing with isotopic studies of meteorites that have a direct bearing on the origin and early evolution of the solar system, pre-solar processes and cosmic ray prehistory complete the volume.
 
 
 

TROPMET  97
 

Editor:	P Goswami
Price:	India     - Rs.  100 Abroad - US$  25 (including air-mail postage)

The TROPMET series of conferences on tropical meteorology was initiated by the Indian Meteorological Society in 1992.  Since then, TROPMET has provided an effective platform for exchange of views on a number of themes of scientific importance.  TROPMET is a major national science event and encompasses atmospheric sciences, oceanography, fluid dynamics, numerical modelling, satellite technology and high-speed computing.

This volume is the first systematic attempt to disseminate the large amount of research material presented at the conference.  The seven articles in the volume cover such areas as satellite meteorology, the complexity and predictability of monsoon, and the interaction of atmosphere and biosphere in the tropics.
 

Other Special Issues of the Earth and Planetary Sciences
 
 

Title	Guest Editor	Year	Price
		Volume	India Rs.	Abroad US$
Seismology in India	J N Brune		100	25
Experimental Petrology	A K Gupta		100	25
Structure and Tectonics: The Indian Scene	K Naha, S K Ghosh and  D Mukhopadhyay		100	25
Geomagnetic Methods and Lithospheric Structure	B P Singh		100	25
Climate and Global Warming	P K Das		100	25
Progressive and Superposed Deformations	S K Ghosh, S Sengupta and N Mandal		100	25
The Indian Granulites	S.K. Sen		100	25
Recent Researches on the Precambrian	D Mukhopadhyay		100	25
Isotopic Windows on Earth and Planetary processes	D Lal, J D McDougall,  B L K Somayajulu,  S Krishnaswami,  Y J Bhaskar Rao  and  T V Sivaraman	Vol 109, No. 1, March 2000	100	25
Bay of Bengal Monsoon Experiment	Sulochana Gadgil and U C Mohanty	Vol 109, No. 2, June 2000
Recent Researchers in Petrology and Geochemistry	S Bhattacharya and J Ganguly	Vol 110, No. 4, December 2001
Pan Ocean Remote Sensing Conference (PORSEC )	E Desa, R Brown, S Shenoi and George Joseph	Vol. 111, No. 3, September 2002
Bay of Bengal Monsoon Experiment (BOBMEX) 1999	D R Sikka	Vol. 112, No. 2, June 2003
The Bhuj Earthquake, Gujarat, India, 2001	Roger Bilham and S K Srivastav	Vol. 112, No. 3, September 2003
Magmatism in India through Time	Hetu C Sheth               Kanchan Pande	Vol. 113, No. 4, December 2004
Aspects of Sedimentary Geology - A Tribute to S K Chanda	S K Tandon and Asru K Chaudhuri	Vol. 114,  No. 3,  June 2005
Proceedings of the International Conference on Exploration and Utilization of the Moon 22 – 26 November 2004  Udaipur, Rajasthan, India	Narendra Bhandari	Vol. 114,  No. 6,  December  2005
Vindhyan Geology: Status and Perspectives	J S Ray and C Chakraborty	Vol. 115,  No. 1,  February  2006