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This section looks at methods of assessing frost hazard which are based on physical principles. Most work in this area has concentrated on predicting minimum temperatures at an individual site and not on predicting spatial patterns. Significant progress has been made in understanding how near-surface air cools but there has been little progress in developing techniques by which such understanding can be applied to a range of different sites. Furthermore, the results of such physically based methods are commonly applicable only to a narrow range of atmospheric conditions and/or physical soil conditions.
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Kalma, J.D., Laughlin, G.P., Caprio, J.M., Hamer, P.J.C. (1992). Micro-Scale Processes. In: The Bioclimatology of Frost. Advances in Bioclimatology, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58132-8_3
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