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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"cooling degree days"”.
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INCORPORATING CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS INTO RISK MEASURES OF INDEX-BASED INSURANCE
… are used to estimate distributions of cooling degree days for 2041-2070, which are then used to estimate risk measures for index-based insurance products defined for cooling degree day indices. More broadly, this thesis provides a transparent illustration of climate data processing, …
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Investigation of In Season Progression of Tomato spotted wilt virus and its Management in Flue-cured Tobacco Fields of North Carolina
… to a logistic regression model with cumulative degree days and past TSW field history as explanatory variables. Analyses revealed that both variables are significant explanatory factors of the temporal progression of TSW on tobacco. Cooling degree-days were calculated with four different bases, …
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Implications of climate change on energy demand and growing-degree days
… response to the changes in climate, heating and cooling demand has changed, along with the length and productivity of the growing season. Metrics for energy demand and for agriculture and ecosystems are expected to continue to respond to the changing climate throughout the 21st century. The …
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Price Dynamics in LNG Spot Markets: An Econometric Analysis
… oil and coal prices, charter rates, heating and cooling degree days and their deviations from their averages, and industrial production indices on LNG spot prices. The test results reveal that LNG spot prices in Japan and Spain are primarily driven by the NBP (U.K.) spot prices and the NBP spot …
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Bluegill Reproductive Biology and Population Dynamics in Four South Dakota Impoundments
… (mean temperature, total precipitation, and cooling degree days) exhibited similar support and of the three single variable models, precipitation was the most supported. However, the bivariate plot between precipitation and recruitment exhibited a positive trend. Thus, if climatological …