Jun 23, 2013 - and lowest Tmin, whereas southeast Kansas had the lowest nFD and highest Tmin; however, the magnitude of the trends in these indices ...
Climatic Change (2013) 120:169–181 DOI 10.1007/s10584-013-0794-4
Long-term spatial and temporal trends in frost indices in Kansas, USA Aavudai Anandhi & Sriram Perumal & Prasanna H. Gowda & Mary Knapp & Stacy Hutchinson & John Harrington Jr. & Leigh Murray & Mary B. Kirkham & Charles W. Rice
Received: 23 May 2012 / Accepted: 18 May 2013 / Published online: 23 June 2013 # The Author(s) 2013. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com
Abstract Frost indices such as number of frost days (nFDs), number of frost-free days (nFFDs), last spring freeze (LSF), first fall freeze (FFF), and growing-season length (GSL) were calculated using daily minimum air temperature (Tmin) from 23 centennial weather stations across Kansas during four time periods (through 1919, 1920–1949, 1950–1979, and 1980–2009). A frost day is defined as a day with Tmin
