TY - JOUR
AU - Waller, Eric
AB - The Central Valley of California is home to a variety of fruit and nut trees. These trees account for 95% of the U.S. production, but they need a sufficient amount of winter chill to achieve rest and quiescence for the next season's buds and flowers. In prior work, we reported that the accumulation of winter chill is declining in the Central Valley. We hypothesize that a reduction in winter fog is cooccurring and is contributing to the reduction in winter chill. We examined a 33 year record of satellite remote sensing to develop a fog climatology for the Central Valley. We find that the number of winter fog events, integrated spatially, decreased 46%, on average, over 32 winters, with much year to year variability. Less fog means warmer air and an increase in the energy balance on buds, which amplifies their warming, reducing their chill accumulation more.
TI - Winter fog is decreasing in the fruit growing region of the Central Valley of California
JF - Geophysical Research Letters
DO - 10.1002/2014GL060018
DA - 2014-01-16
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/winter-fog-is-decreasing-in-the-fruit-growing-region-of-the-central-DFr02DQ0gl
SP - 3251
EP - 3256
VL - 41
IS - 9
DP - DeepDyve
ER -