A policymaker is evaluating the large-scale deployment of solar power in India. Which historical contribution provided the foundational data for solar insolation mapping?
Anna Mani’s solar radiation measurements
Anna Mani was an Indian physicist and meteorologist who served as Deputy Director General of the India Meteorological Department. From the 1950s onwards she designed instruments for measuring solar radiation and set up a nationwide network of stations to record solar insolation across India.
The systematic ground-based radiation data she gathered became the foundational dataset used for India's solar-atlas work and for planning the country's later large-scale solar-power deployment. NASA satellite records, university climate models and routine weather forecasts came later and were not the original foundational source.
Hence, the answer is Anna Mani’s solar radiation measurements.
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The scientific study of fishes is called ________.
The term 'mitochondria' was coined by:
Who is remembered as the pioneer of mitosis research and the founder of cytogenetics?
Sedimentation coefficient ‘S’ (Svedberg's Unit) is indirectly a measure of:
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A. Electromyography (EMG)
B. Electrocardiogram (ECG)
C. Electroencephalography (EEG)
D. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
