Forecasting Earth Surface Temperature for the Optimal Application of Frost Protection Methods

✍ Scribed by B. Krasovitski; E. Kimmel; I. Amir

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 291 KB
• Volume: 63
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-8634
• DOI: 10.1006/jaer.1996.0011

✦ Synopsis

A method is presented which predicts when the earth surface temperature will fall below a safe threshold for plants during a night of frost . The method requires as an input a set of earth surface temperatures which ought to be measured soon after sunset . Unknown parameters of the heat transfer process in the soil and the air are determined by an optimization procedure . Based on these parameters , the evolution of earth surface temperature is predicted for the rest of the night . Simulation experiments show good quality of the prediction .