Analysis of growing degree-days as a climate impact indicator in a region with extreme annual air temperature amplitude

Climate Research

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 143-154

  Grigorieva, E A ^a   Matzarakis, A ^b   De Freitas, C R ^c  

^a Institute of Complex Analysis of Regional Problems   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agro climate indices; Biologically active temperature; Climate and agriculture; Climate change; Growing degree days; Russian Far East; Spatial and temporal analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880571851     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr00888     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Baskerville GL, Emin P (1969) Rapid estimation of heat accumulation from maximum and minimum temperatures. Ecology 50:514-517
2. Bootsma A (1994) Long term (100 yr) climatic trends for agriculture at selected locations in Canada. Clim Change 26:65-88
3. Bootsma A, Anderson D, Gameda S (2004) Potential impacts of climate change on agroclimatic indices in southern regions of Ontario and Quebec. Technical Bulletin ECORC Contribution No.03-284, Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food, Ottawa
4. Brown DM (1960) Soybean ecology. I. Development temperature relationships from controlled environment studies. Agron J 52:493-496
5. Cesaraccio C, Spano D, Duce P, Snyder RL (2001) An improved model for determining degree-day values from daily temperature data. Int J Biometeorol 45:161-169
6. Chen CS (1973) Digital computer simulation of heat units and their use for predicting plant maturity. Int J Biometeorol 17:329-335
7. Chirkov YuI (1965) Agrometeorological indices in the development and formation of maize crops. Agric Meteorol 2:121-126
8. Cross HZ, Zuber MS (1972) Prediction of flowering dates in maize based on different methods of estimating thermal units. Agron J 64:351-355
9. Darby HM, Lauer JG (2002) Harvest date and hybrid influence on corn forage yield, quality and preservation. Agron J 94:559-566
10. Davitaya FF (1965) A method of predicting heat supply and duration of the growth period. Agric Meteorol 2:109-119
11. Dwyer LM, Steward DW, Carrigan L, Ma BL, Neave P, Balchin D (1999) Guidelines for comparisons among different maize maturity rating systems. Agron J 91:946-949
12. Easterling WE, Kates RW (1995) Indexes of leading climate indicators for impact assessment. Clim Change 31:623-648
13. Edey SN (1977) Growing degree-days and crop production in Canada. Publication 1635, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa
14. Fealy R, Fealy RM (2008) The spatial variation in degree days derived from locational attributes for the 1961 to 1990 period. Ir J Agric Food Res 47:1-11
15. Folland CK, Karl TR, Vinnikov KYa (1990) Observed climate variation and change. In: Houghton JT, Jenkins GJ, Ephraums JJ (eds) Climate change: the IPCC scientific assessment. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p 195-238
16. Folland CK, Karl TR, Nicholls N, Nyenzi BS, Parker DE, Vinnikov KYa (1992) Observed climate change and variability. In: Houghton JT, Callendar BA, Varney SK (eds) Climate change 1992: the supplementary report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p 136-170
17. Førland EJ, Skaugen TE, Benestad RE, Hanssen-Bauer I, Tveito OE (2004) Variations in thermal growing, heating, and freezing indices in the Nordic Arctic, 1900-2050. Arct Antarct Alp Res 36:347-356
18. Gavilán RG (2005) The use of climatic parameters and indices in vegetation distribution. A case study in the Spanish Sistema Central. Int J Biometeorol 50:111-120
19. Gilmore EC Jr, Rogers JS (1958) Heat units as a method of measuring maturity in corn. Agron J 50:611-615
20. Gordeev AV, Kleschenko AD, Chernyakov BA, Sirotenko OD (2006) Bioclimatic potential of Russia: theory and practice. Tovarischestvo nauchnykh izdanyi KMK, Moscow (in Russian)
21. Gordon R, Bootsma A (1993) Analyses of growing degreedays for agriculture in Atlantic Canada. Clim Res 3:169-176
22. Grigorieva E (2008) Spatial-temporal dynamics of climate thermal resources for the southern part of the Russian Far East. 18th International Congress of Biometeorology, Tokyo, 22-26 Sep 2008. International Society of Biometeorology, Tokyo, p 121
23. Idso SB, Jackson RD, Reginato RJ (1978) Extending the 'degree day' concept of plant phenological development to include water stress effects. Ecology 59:431-433
24. Jones PD (1994) Hemispheric surface air temperature variations: a reanalysis and an update to 1993. J Clim 7:1794-1802
25. Jones PD, Briffa KR (1992) Global surface air temperature variations. 1. The instrumental period. Holocene 2:174-188
26. Jones PD, Briffa KR (1995) Growing season temperatures over the former Soviet Union. Int J Climatol 15:943-959
27. Karing P, Kallis A, Tooming H (1999) Adaptation principles of agriculture to climate change. Clim Res 12:175-183
28. Karl TR, Jones PD, Knight RW, Kukla G and others (1993) Asymmetric trends of daily maximum and minimum temperature. Bull Am Meteorol Soc 74:1007-1023
29. Kelchevskaya LS (1971) Methods for observation processing in agrometeorology (in Russian). Hydrometeoizdat, Leningrad
30. Matzarakis A, Ivanova D, Balafoutis C, Makrogiannis T (2007) Climatology of growing degree days in Greece. Clim Res 34:233-240
31. McMaster GS, Smika DE (1988) Estimation and evaluation of winter wheat phenology in the central Great Plains. Agric Meteorol 43:1-18
32. McMaster GS, Wilhelm WW (1997) Growing degree-days: one equation, two interpretations. Agric Meteorol 87:291-300
33. Mederski HJ, Miller ME, Weaver CR (1973) Accumulated heat units for classifying corn hybrid maturity. Agron J 65:743-747
34. Roltsch WJ, Zalom FG, Strawn AJ, Strand JF, Pitcairn MJ (1999) Evaluation of several degree-day estimation methods in California climates. Int J Biometeorol 42:169-176
35. Russelle MP, Wilhelm WW, Olson RA, Power JF (1984) Growth analysis based on degree days. Crop Sci 24:28-32
36. Sands PJ, Hacket C, Nix HA (1979) A model of the development and bulking of potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.). Derivation from well-managed field crops. Field Crops Res 2:309-331
37. Schwartz MD, Ahas R, Aasa A (2006) Onset of spring starting earlier across the Northern Hemisphere. Global Change Biol 12:343-351
38. Smith PJ, Bootsma A, Gates AD (1982) Heat units in relation to corn maturity in the Atlantic region of Canada. Agric Meteorol 26:201-213
39. Snyder RL, Spano D, Cesaraccio C, Duce P (1999) Determining degree-day thresholds from field observations. Int J Biometeorol 42:177-182
40. Vedin H (1990) Frequency of rare weather events during periods of extreme climate. Geogr Ann 72:151-155
41. Wang JY (1960) A critique of the heat-unit approach to plant response studies. Ecology 41:785-790
42. Wielgolaski FE (1999) Starting dates and basic temperatures in phenological observations of plants. Int J Biometeorol 42:158-168
43. Wiggans SC (1956) The effect of seasonal temperatures on maturity of oats planted at different dates. Agron J 48: 21-25