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[PP06] Annual growing season length
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Annual growing season has lengthened throughout most of central and southern Spain, central Italy, Atlantic coast, British Isles, Denmark and Central Europe (also in Slovenia). Projections of the growing season point out further increase all over the Europe, mainly because of an earlier start in the spring growing season and its subsequent end in autumn. Lengthening of the annual growing season will northward expansion of warm-season crops.

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Figure PP06-1: Average length of annual growing age within individual places, Slovenia, reference periods 1961-1990 and 1991-2014
Sources:

Archives of meteorological data, Slovenian environment agency, 2015

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Ljubljana Novo mesto Bilje Slap pri Vipavi Murska Sobota Maribor Rateče
1961-1990 number of days 243 238 278 276 237 243 187
1991-2014 number of days 258 252 281 284 246 251 201
Figure PP06-2: Changes of length of annual growing age in Ljubljana, 1961-2014
Sources:

Archives of meteorological data, Slovenian environment agency, 2015

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1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970
growing season number of days 279 227 249 256 243 226 268 243 235 234
1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980
growing season number of days 247 270 216 226 265 239 278 255 246 222
1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990
growing season number of days 246 222 237 235 210 243 224 228 252 260
1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
growing season number of days 237 284 222 275 231 246 249 230 261 284
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
growing season number of days 246 280 237 269 249 273 266 239 285 253
2011 2012 2013 2014
growing season number of days 247 276 235 310
Figure PP06-3: Change of length of annual growing age of crops, Europe, 1975-2010
Sources:

EEA, Growing season for agricultural crops (CLIM 030), 2012

Last modified
29.12.2015
Author(s)

Ana Žust, Slovenian Environment Agency