Reconstruction of false spring occurrences over the southeastern United States, 1901-2007: An increasing risk of spring freeze damage?

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Marino, Garrett P ^a,b,c   Kaiser, Dale P ^b   Gu, Lianhong ^b   Ricciuto, Daniel M ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Edison Mission Marketing and Trading   (United States)

Author keywords

deciduous forest; false spring; Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN); growing degree days (GDD); last hard freeze; minimum temperature; phenology; start of the growing season (SGS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960289468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/2/024015     Document Type: Article

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