India Climographs

Video of NCERT program — 5 February 2021
“Exploring Geography through Climographs”

The Institute of Geographical Studies (TIGS), is dedicated to popularizing geography education for children, particularly those in classes 8+.

We invite children to explore a world of ideas through this fascinating discipline called geography.

Here is a project to bring something interesting to children (and adults) studying geography: a book on climographs in India based on climate data from 111 climate stations from the amazing India Meteorological Department (IMD), one of the long-serving, tax-payer-funded agencies of the Government of India. ( See list of stations )

Climographs are pictures that tell us about long term average atmospheric variations at a place.

About the book:

• Title : India Climographs
• Contents :
  • Introduction to climate concepts, climographs, and how to read a climograph.
  • Climographs for 111 stations in India.
  • How to use the book to advance your knowledge of geography.
  • Graded exercises to help you assess your own progress in studying this book.
  • Hints on how to ask geography questions.
  • Forewords by:
    • Dr Surinder Mohan Bhardwaj, cultural geographer, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA
    • Dr Thomas W Schmidlin, a meteorologist, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA.
    • Dr M V Srinivasan, Professor of Economics, Department of Education in Social Sciences, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi, India
• Price : FREE!
  
• Why is this book free? 
  • The data that are graphed here have been collected using tax-payer funds, by the Government of India. You have already paid for the data.
  • The creation of the graphs and their compilation into a book are a service by The Institute of Geographical Studies in the cause of popularizing geography education.
• Conditions applicable : Published under Creative Commons Licensing: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0  :  Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
  • Please learn about the conditions by visiting the Creative Commons lincensing link given here.
  • If you are a teacher, please teach your pupils about this structure and its importance.
• Please be sure share your thoughts and comments on this book. Additional information is welcome. We will try to include your information in a future revised edition of the book.

Download your copy here : INDIA CLIMOGRAPHS BY TIGS

List of the meteorological stations in the book