Pear phenology and climate data from 1960-2020, Kent, UK

How to cite this Dataset

Reeves, Laura (2022): Pear phenology and climate data from 1960-2020, Kent, UK. University of Reading. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.000404

Description

This dataset contains flowering times (in Julian days) of 12 different pear cultivars from 1960-2020 collated from the National Institute of Agricultural Botany East Malling Research (NIAB EMR) in East Malling, Kent and the National Fruit Collection in Brogdale. There are four different phenological stages included:

- First flowering; when the first flower is open on the pear tree (First_and_ten_flowering.csv)
- Ten percent flowering, when 10% of flowers are open on the pear tree (First_and_ten_flowering.csv)
- Full flowering, when over 50% of flowers have opened on the tree(Full_flowering.csv);
- Last flowering, when 90% of petals have fallen (Last_flowering.csv)

Alongside this weather variables including maximum, minimum and mean temperatures for each month, total monthly rainfall, total monthly frost days, January-April average mean temperature and January-April total frost days, used within the principal components analysis (PCA) and linear mixed models (LMM). Weather variables were calculated using Met Office data from Brogdale and East Malling weather stations. The data set also contains frost days Jan-Apr and mean Jan-Apr temperature predicted for 2080, for 4 different Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP ) scenarios, calculated using data from the UK Climate Projections User Interface.

Resource Type:

Dataset

Creators:

Reeves, Laura