affects the environment and agricultural practices in these regions. The effect of climate
warming on soil frost is an important concern, but our present understanding of such effect is
limited, due to the lack of long-term data covering a large region. This study analyzes a
unique regional database of 20-year records from 1986–2005 of soil frost, combined with
long-term climate data from 1955–2005. Annual maximum frost depths ðDmaxÞ in the …