Permafrost Vocabularies

Permafrost Vocabularies

design freezing index

Link: http://w3id.org/permafrost/v/ipaglossary/t0079

Within: IPA Permafrost Glossary

Definition: The cumulative number of degree-days below 0°C, calculated by taking the average of the seasonal freezing indices for the three coldest winters in the most recent 30 years of record.

Term design freezing index en
Comment If data for 30 years are not available, then the index is based on the coldest winter in the latest 10-year period of record. en
dcterms:source https://doi.org/10.4224/20386561 xsd:anyURI

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