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continentality

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continentality [‚känt·ən·en′tal·əd·ē]
(climatology)
The degree to which a point on the earth's surface is in all respects subject to the influence of a land mass.
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Column heading abbreviations: MAT, Mean Annual Temperature; MAP, Mean Annual Precipitation; GDD, Growing Degree Days; GSL, Growing Season Length; XMT, 30-year extreme minimum winter temperature (event year in parenthesis); CNT, Continentality (mean annual temperature range).
Geology and Wine 11. Terroir of the Western Snake River Plain, Idaho, ... by Bitner, Ron / Geoscience Canada
Other conditions being equal, the bio-climatic potential (on a scale of 1-100) is determined by the cumulative availability of heat (the sum of effective temperatures above 10 C), the available moisture (total precipitation during the vegetative period), and the continentality of the regional climate (frost hazard, length of agricultural seasons).
Large and small business in Russian agriculture: adaptation to market by Uzun, Vasilii / Comparative Economic Studies
 
 
 
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