Risk of spring frost to apple production under future climate scenarios: the role of phenological acclimation

E Eccel, R Rea, A Caffarra, A Crisci - International journal of …, 2009 - Springer
In the context of global warming, the general trend towards earlier flowering dates of many
temperate tree species is likely to result in an increased risk of damage from exposure to …

Long-term spatial and temporal trends in frost indices in Kansas, USA

A Anandhi, S Perumal, PH Gowda, M Knapp… - Climatic Change, 2013 - Springer
Frost indices such as number of frost days (nFDs), number of frost-free days (nFFDs), last
spring freeze (LSF), first fall freeze (FFF), and growing-season length (GSL) were calculated …

Effect of the Zagros Mountains on the spatial distribution of precipitation

B Alijani - Journal of mountain science, 2008 - Springer
In order to examine the effect of the Zagros Mountains on precipitation, first, the annual and
seasonal rainfall indices (rain days frequency, rain amount, daily rainfall intensity, and heavy …

Spatiotemporal analysis of the frost regime in the Iberian Peninsula in the context of climate change (1975–2018)

A García-Martín, LL Paniagua, FJ Moral, FJ Rebollo… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Climate change is having many effects in the agricultural sector, which are being studied
worldwide. Undoubtedly, warmer winters and earlier springs produce changes in frost …

Assessing wheat frost risk with the support of GIS: An approach coupling a growing season meteorological index and a hybrid fuzzy neural network model

Y Yue, Y Zhou, J Wang, X Ye - Sustainability, 2016 - mdpi.com
Crop frost, one kind of agro-meteorological disaster, often causes significant loss to
agriculture. Thus, evaluating the risk of wheat frost aids scientific response to such disasters …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal and spatial variability of ground frost indices in Northeast China

T Wang, G Fan, H Zhang, X Shen - Atmosphere, 2024 - mdpi.com
Frost is one of the most frequent, intense, and influential agrometeorological disasters that
occurs frequently in Northeast China. The study of the spatiotemporal changes of ground …

Conditional cold avoidance drives between-population variation in germination behaviour in Calluna vulgaris

JP Spindelböck, Z Cook, MI Daws, E Heegaard… - Annals of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Across their range, widely distributed species are exposed to
a variety of climatic and other environmental conditions, and accordingly may display …

Modelling apple tree bud burst time and frost risk in Iran

M Farajzadeh, M Rahimi, GA Kamali… - … : A journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The bud burst phase of orchard trees is the most critical phase in relation to low temperature
and frost since the most parts of the bud, especially the ovary, are very sensitive to low …

The study of frost occurrence in free state province of South Africa

ME Moeletsi, M Tongwane… - Advances in Meteorology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The study investigated the cessation, onset, and duration of light, medium, and heavy frost in
Free State province of South Africa using minimum temperatures from 1960 to 2015. Trends …

Risk occurrences of damaging frosts during the growing season of vegetables in the Elbe River lowland, the Czech Republic

V Potop, P Zahraniček, L Türkott, P Štěpánek, J Soukup - Natural Hazards, 2014 - Springer
This study has, for the first time, analysed in detail the risk occurrences of the last spring
frost, first fall frost and the length of the frost-free period during the growing season of …