Micro-hardiness Agriculture Zones in the North Star Borough, Alaska: Past and Future Scenarios

• Main Author: Hatch, Ellen W.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Arctic; Fairbanks; North Star; Climate change; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/3187

Agriculture in the Arctic is often limited by the low receipt of heat energy, which is often measured in growing degree days (GDD). With the advent of increasingly powerful climate modeling, projection and downscaling techniques, it is becoming possible to examine future climates in high resolution....