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In South Africa cold spells are defined as 3 or more consecutive days with minimum temperatures below 2.5 degree Celsius, severe cold spells are 3 or more consecutive days with minima below freezing point, i.e. 0 degree Celsius, while extreme cold spells are defined as 3 or more consecutive days wit...
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ftdatacite:10.15493/sarva.beeh.10000032 2023-07-23T04:15:52+02:00 Cold Spells ... R.E. Schulze M. Maharaj 2007 https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/sarva.beeh.10000032 https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/SAEON/go/10.15493/SARVA.BEEH.10000032 en eng University of KwaZulu-Natal http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3 Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) cold spells minimum temperature severe weather Weather and climate Regional and seasonal variability Exteme events Disaster management Agents of disaster Commercial forestry Physiological stress drivers Agriculture Biophysical variables on dataset Dataset 2007 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.15493/sarva.beeh.10000032 2023-07-03T18:39:33Z In South Africa cold spells are defined as 3 or more consecutive days with minimum temperatures below 2.5 degree Celsius, severe cold spells are 3 or more consecutive days with minima below freezing point, i.e. 0 degree Celsius, while extreme cold spells are defined as 3 or more consecutive days with temperatures below -2.5 degree Celsius. In South Africa the main causes of cold spells are outbreaks of Antarctic air which follow cold fronts, and in the southern hemisphere with its vast tracts of oceans, these cold fronts are frequently well developed. Cold spells affect many sectors, including health, especially exposure to low temperatures, energy, with marked increases in electricity consumption for heating purposes. In agriculture some consequences of cold spells include frost and freeze impacts, especially if the cold spells occur early or livestock losses, where the livestock has not been protected from the cold. The temperature database created for South Africa by Schulze and Maharaj (2004) was used to ... Dataset Antarc* Antarctic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic |
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In South Africa cold spells are defined as 3 or more consecutive days with minimum temperatures below 2.5 degree Celsius, severe cold spells are 3 or more consecutive days with minima below freezing point, i.e. 0 degree Celsius, while extreme cold spells are defined as 3 or more consecutive days with temperatures below -2.5 degree Celsius. In South Africa the main causes of cold spells are outbreaks of Antarctic air which follow cold fronts, and in the southern hemisphere with its vast tracts of oceans, these cold fronts are frequently well developed. Cold spells affect many sectors, including health, especially exposure to low temperatures, energy, with marked increases in electricity consumption for heating purposes. In agriculture some consequences of cold spells include frost and freeze impacts, especially if the cold spells occur early or livestock losses, where the livestock has not been protected from the cold. The temperature database created for South Africa by Schulze and Maharaj (2004) was used to ... |
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