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

Climatic Change

Volumn 120, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 169-181

  Anandhi, Aavudai ^a   Perumal, Sriram ^a   Gowda, Prasanna H ^b   Knapp, Mary ^a   Hutchinson, Stacy ^c   Harrington, John ^a   Murray, Leigh ^a   Kirkham, Mary B ^a   Rice, Charles W ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA ARS Conservation and Production Research Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^c Kansas State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AS NUMBERS; FROST DAYS; GROWING SEASON LENGTHS; PROBABILITY LEVELS; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL TRENDS; TIME-PERIODS; TIME-SCALES; WEATHER STATIONS;

PROBABILITY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ELEVATION; FROST; GROWING SEASON; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PERIODICITY; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE; WEATHER STATION;

KANSAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84881611098     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0794-4     Document Type: Article

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