Cold Air Drainage and Length of Growing Season in the Hopi Mesas Area
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- other
- Published by Taylor & Francis in KIVA
- Vol. 44 (4) , 285-296
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00231940.1979.11757921
Abstract
Growing season on the Hopi Reservation has been referred to in the literature since 1916 as between 130 and 145 days long. These figures were taken from canyon areas subject to the effects of cold air drainage. Recent work elsewhere on the reservation indicates a growing season closer to 155 to 170 days in length. On the mesa tops around which cold air subsides into topographically low areas, the growing season may approach 190 days. The implications of these revisions may be significant toward understanding the strategy of Hopi agriculture and its continuing success.Keywords
This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Hopi Agriculture and Land Ownership.The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1931