Time‐varying trends in frost indicators in the U.S. Southern Great Plains
Abstract Climatic frost indicators, including the dates of the last spring frost (LSF), the dates of the first fall frost (FFF), and the length of the frost‐free season (FFSL), are critical factors in anthropogenic and natural ecosystem management and can be directly calculated from daily minimum te...
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crwiley:10.1002/joc.6803 2024-09-09T19:26:10+00:00 Time‐varying trends in frost indicators in the U.S. Southern Great Plains Zhang, Yongjun Gowda, Prasanna Brown, David Rice, Charles Zambreski, Zachary Kutikoff, Seth Lin, Xiaomao 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.6803 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/joc.6803 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/joc.6803 https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/joc.6803 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor International Journal of Climatology volume 41, issue 2, page 1264-1278 ISSN 0899-8418 1097-0088 journal-article 2020 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6803 2024-08-06T04:20:52Z Abstract Climatic frost indicators, including the dates of the last spring frost (LSF), the dates of the first fall frost (FFF), and the length of the frost‐free season (FFSL), are critical factors in anthropogenic and natural ecosystem management and can be directly calculated from daily minimum temperatures. Daily minimum temperature from the Applied Climate Information System was used to determine long‐term trends of frost indicators across the U.S. Southern Great Plains. The results demonstrated statistically significant trends of earlier LSF in eastern Kansas, western and eastern Oklahoma, and eastern Texas from 1950 to 2017. However, significantly later FFF trends and longer FFSL trends were mainly identified in eastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas. Overall, the region was characterized by the trends toward earlier LSF, later FFF, and longer FFSL from 1950 to 2017. In addition, the choice of time period in the climatic time series played an important role in LSF, FFF, and FFSL trends. Furthermore, the results from the correlation analysis of LSF and FFF with multiple climate indices indicated that the increasing trends in the spring Arctic Oscillation (AO) were consistent with the earlier onset of spring in Kansas and Texas, and the fall Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) was positively correlated with the later FFF dates in Kansas. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Wiley Online Library Arctic International Journal of Climatology 41 2 1264 1278 |
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Abstract Climatic frost indicators, including the dates of the last spring frost (LSF), the dates of the first fall frost (FFF), and the length of the frost‐free season (FFSL), are critical factors in anthropogenic and natural ecosystem management and can be directly calculated from daily minimum temperatures. Daily minimum temperature from the Applied Climate Information System was used to determine long‐term trends of frost indicators across the U.S. Southern Great Plains. The results demonstrated statistically significant trends of earlier LSF in eastern Kansas, western and eastern Oklahoma, and eastern Texas from 1950 to 2017. However, significantly later FFF trends and longer FFSL trends were mainly identified in eastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas. Overall, the region was characterized by the trends toward earlier LSF, later FFF, and longer FFSL from 1950 to 2017. In addition, the choice of time period in the climatic time series played an important role in LSF, FFF, and FFSL trends. Furthermore, the results from the correlation analysis of LSF and FFF with multiple climate indices indicated that the increasing trends in the spring Arctic Oscillation (AO) were consistent with the earlier onset of spring in Kansas and Texas, and the fall Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) was positively correlated with the later FFF dates in Kansas. |
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Zhang, Yongjun Gowda, Prasanna Brown, David Rice, Charles Zambreski, Zachary Kutikoff, Seth Lin, Xiaomao Time‐varying trends in frost indicators in the U.S. Southern Great Plains |
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Time‐varying trends in frost indicators in the U.S. Southern Great Plains |
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Time‐varying trends in frost indicators in the U.S. Southern Great Plains |
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Time‐varying trends in frost indicators in the U.S. Southern Great Plains |
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