Direct Reading Frost Gage Is Reliable, Inexpensive

Alfred Ray Harris

Treesearch

Direct Reading Frost Gage Is Reliable, Inexpensive

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Alfred Ray Harris

Year:

1970

Type:

Research Note

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

Research Note NC-89. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station

Download (PDF 626 KB)

Download (PDF 626 KB): https://research.fs.usda.gov/download/treesearch/11146.pdf

Abstract

A tube-type gage is economical, easy to make, and is a reliable indicator of frost depth. Gage reading were within ? 5 centimeters of indicated true frost depth 95 percent of the time.

Keywords

frost, gage

Citation

Harris, Alfred Ray. 1970. Direct Reading Frost Gage Is Reliable, Inexpensive. Research Note NC-89. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station