Trends of spring time frost events and phenological dates in Central Europe

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 74, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 41-51

  Scheifinger, Helfried ^a   Menzel, Annette ^b   Koch, Elisabeth ^a   Peter, Christian ^a  

^a ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FROST; PHENOLOGY; SPRING (SEASON); TEMPERATURE;

(CENTRAL); EUROPE;

CORYLUS AVELLANA;

EID: 0346036042     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-002-0704-6     Document Type: Article

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