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Five common methods used to estimate daily degree-days. a) daily average; b) single triangle; c) double triangle; d) single sine; e) double sine. Each curve represents the temperature cycle over two days, while the area of the shaded region indicates the degree-days that are accumulated (an approximation to the area under the temperature curve).
