ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Pune, for providing climatological data. Helpful communication with Dr. C. D. Padmanabhan, Dr. G. L. Mokashi, and Dr. M. I. Ali of IMD is gratefully acknowledged. We thank Dr. Tulsidas, Director, IMD, Bangalore, for providing daily surface data for the recent years for the Karwar, Honnavar, and Shirali meteorological observatories. The financial assistance from the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India for Energy Research, is acknowledged.

We thank Professor N. V. Joshi for useful suggestions.