Apple orchard frost protection with wind machine operation

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 141, Issue 2-4, 2006, Pages 71-81

  Ribeiro, António C ^a   De Melo Abreu, J Paulo ^b   Snyder, Richard L ^c  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Freeze damage; Frost fans; Frost protection; Malus pumila mill.; Night cooling

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; COOLING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FROST; FRUIT; MICROCLIMATE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; ORCHARD; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; WIND POWER;

MALUS PUMILA; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 33845301145     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2006.08.019     Document Type: Article

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