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http://dx.doi.org/10.5532/KJAFM.2012.14.3.119

Estimation of Duration of Low-temperature in Winter Season Using Minimum Air Temperature on January  

Moon, Kyung-Hwan (National Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science, RDA)
Son, In-Chang (National Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science, RDA)
Seo, Hyeong-Ho (National Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science, RDA)
Choi, Kyung-San (National Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science, RDA)
Joa, Jae-Ho (National Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science, RDA)
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Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology / v.14, no.3, 2012 , pp. 119-123 More about this Journal
Abstract
The duration of low temperature in winter season is one of the important agrometeorological characteristics in crop growing fields. This study was conducted to develop a method to estimate the duration of low-temperature with monthly meteorological data. Using daily meteorological data from 61 observation sites from 1981 to 2010, we analyzed the relationships between the averages of monthly temperature minima and the durations of low-temperature ranging from -15 to $5^{\circ}C$, The monthly mean of the January minimum air temperature was appropriate for theestimation of the durations of lowtemperature below $0^{\circ}C$. We tested a simple second order equation to predict durations of low-temperature. To apply the equation to various temperature ranges, we suggested two different equations for the estimation of coefficients a and b, which are dependent on the base temperatures from -15 to $0^{\circ}C$. Thevalidation of the equations using other daily meteorological datasets from 1971 to 2000 showed that they were appropriate for the range from -10 to $0^{\circ}C$, but underestimated at $-15^{\circ}C$.
Keywords
Low-temperature duration; Minimum temperature; Winter day;
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