Publications
December
2005: Sarath
Peiris, James Hansen and Lareef Zubair, Use of Seasonal Climate
Information to Predict Coconut Production in Sri Lanka, International
Journal of Climatology,
provisionally accepted.
February
2002: ENSO
influences on Rice Production in Sri Lanka, International
Journal of Climatology. 22
(2):249-260
July 2004:
Empowering the Vulnerable, TIEMPO, 52:3-6,
University of East Anglia, UK, Also, highlighted in SciDev.net as “Communities facing climate change need local
science.”
Apr 2004: Towards
Developing Weather and Climate Prediction for Sri Lanka, Journal
of the Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka,
XXXVII, 2:53-58.
September
2003: Saving
Weather Data , TIEMPO, 49:16-22,
University of East Anglia, UK.
May 2002:
Development of Meteorology in Sri Lanka, Journal
of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka.
15(2):14-18.
Conference Papers
December
2004: Sarath
Peiris, Lareef Zubair and C.H. Piyasiri, Forecasting National Coconut
Production - A Novel Approach, International
Sri Lankan Statistical Conference, Kandy, Sri
Lanka, 28 – 30 December 2004.
November
2004: Lareef
Zubair with Upamala Tennakoon and Manjula Siriwardhana, Climate Change
Assessments for Sri Lanka from Quality Evaluated Data, International
Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management in the Changing
Environment of the Monsoon Region, United
Nations University, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
December
2002: with Heli
Bulathsinhala, Quality Evaluation of Mean
Historical Temperature Data in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
Association for the Advancement of Science, 58th Annual Sessions, University
of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Feature Article
May 2004:
Lareef
Zubair, Was the bumper rice harvest for 2002/03 Maha due to El Nino? Daily
Mirror, Sri Lanka.
Reports
June 2005: Lareef
Zubair (PI), Kusalika Ariyaratne, Irugal Bandara, Heli Bulathsinhala,
Janaki
Chandimala, M.R.A. Siraj, Manjula Siriwardhana, Upamala Tennakoon and
Zeenas Yahiya, Current Climate and Climate Change Assessments for
Coconut and Tea Plantations in Sri Lanka, AIACC/FECT
report, Submitted
to IRI