Trend in the number of frost-free days
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Created 22 Jun 2016
Published 19 Dec 2016
Last modified 09 Feb 2017
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The annual rate of change of frost-free days represents the trend coefficient for long-term changes in the annual number of days with a minimum daily temperature above 0 °C. For example, a value of 1 indicates that the number of frost-free days has increased on average by 1 day per year in last 30 years (period 1985-2014). The analysis is based on the JRC-MARS gridded meteorological data at 25 km resolution.
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Last upload:
- 22 Jun 2016
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Temporal coverage:
- 1985-2014
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Tags:
- climate , agriculture , atmosphere
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Geographic coverage:
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Methodology:
From the JRC-MARS gridded agro-meteorological database, meteorological observations of daily minimum air temperature at station level with data available for last 30 years (1985-2014) have been selected. Linear trend coefficients were calculated for all stations selected. Then the trend coefficients were spatially interpolated onto the regular 25 km JRC-MARS grid using the thin plate spline method.
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Units:
Days/year
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Rights:
- EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: Joint Research Centre (JRC).
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Owners:
- Joint Research Centre (JRC)
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Processors:
- European Environment Agency (EEA)
- Joint Research Centre (JRC)
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Figure type:
- Map
Additional information
The resulting geotiff has one band representing the value of the calculated trend in days per year.
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