| ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
| ERA5 | ECMWF Reanalysis 5th Generation |
| BBCH | Biologische Bundesanstalt, Bundessortenamt und Chemische Industrie |
| GDD | Growing degree day |
| DOY | Day of year |
| DSS | Decision Support System |
| CART | Classification and regression trees |
| ANN | Artificial neural networks |
| GBM | Stochastic gradient boosting |
| XGBoost | Extreme gradient boosting |
| RF | Random forest |
| RMSE | Root mean square error |
| GDD Tavg | GDD calculated following the average temperature method using weather station data |
| ERA5 GDD Tavg | GDD calculated following the average temperature method using ERA5 data |
| GDD Allen | GDD calculated following the Allen method using weather station data |
| ERA5 GDD Allen | GDD calculated following the Allen method using ERA5 data |