I participate in an international research project focusing on the relationship of happiness feelings to environmental conditions. Our hypothesis is that happiness may be valued more in regions with favorable environmental conditions. Among other variables we would like to examine the length of the vegetation period in several world regions. Therefore we are looking for data on the different vegetation period arount the globe that can be processed numerically (all our other variables are processed in SPSS). I found some databases but they are either local or employ a formats that are not accessible to most psychologists. I would appreciate any suggestions about how to find global vegetation data.