Download Development of advanced weather and climate modelling tools to help vineyard regions adapt to climate change – Part 1

Significant differences have been discovered in the temperature trends observed in different vineyard regions of New Zealand. The most economically important vineyard region, Marlborough, appears to have experienced an increase in the daily temperature range since the 1940s so that the grapevines are more frequently exposed to both higher and lower temperatures over recent decades (Sturman and Quénol 2013).