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ChillModels Package - Functions for Processing Chill and Heat Models for Temperate Fruit Trees

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Calculate the chilling and heat accumulation for studies in the temperate fruit trees. The models in this package are:

  • Utah (Richardson et al., 1974)
  • PCU (Utah modified by Infruitec)
  • GDH_A (Growing Degree Hours by Anderson et al., 1986)
  • GDH_A (Growing Degree Hours by Richardon, 1974)
  • North Carolina (Shaltout e Unrath, 1983)
  • Landsberg Model, Q10 Model (Bidabe)
  • Model by Jones et al. (2013)
  • Low-Chill Model (Gilreath and Buchanan, 1981)
  • Model for Cherry "Sweetheart" (Guak and Nielsen, 2013)
  • Model for apple "Gala" (Guak and Nielsen, 2013)
  • Dynamic Model (Fichmann, 1987) adapted of the "chillR" package
  • Unified Model of Chuine (Chuine, I. et al. 2016)

The release version of ChillModels package is hosted in GitHub. You can download it from GitHub using devtools package.

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("RPertille/ChillModels")
library(ChillModels)

Package Documentation or download .pdf - Reference manual (PDF)

Paper in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture here

Authors: Rafael Henrique Pertille, Marcos Robson Sachet, Idemir Citadin and Marieli Teresinha Guerrezi.