Open AccessThe agroclimatic analysis at farm scale
Author(s) -
Orlandini Simone,
Marta Anna Dalla,
Mancini Marco
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
meteorological applications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1469-8080
pISSN - 1350-4827
DOI - 10.1017/s1350482706002593
Subject(s) - environmental science , altitude (triangle) , scale (ratio) , microscale chemistry , spatial distribution , physical geography , distribution (mathematics) , meteorology , atmospheric sciences , geography , remote sensing , cartography , geology , mathematics , mathematical analysis , mathematics education , geometry
Research was performed in Poggio Casciano Estate (Chianti area, central Italy) with the aim of defining a general approach to analyse the spatial variability of temperature at the microscale. Hourly data were collected from a network of 27 temperature stations covering an area of about 120 ha and determination coefficients ( r 2 ) between station pairs on the basis of different geo‐topographical factors were calculated. The data were analysed in order to investigate trends describing the spatial distribution of temperature inside the study area. The results pointed out a strong effect of some topographical condition on the distribution of thermal patterns, in particular altitude and the distance from valley bottoms. The results are discussed in order to formulate a general approach for the characterisation of climatic conditions at small scale. Copyright © 2006 Royal Meteorological Society