Updating Climatic Zoning of Russian Territory by Road Traffic Conditions in Connection with Continued Warming
https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587556621040099
Abstract
The article proposes a new methodology for zoning of Russian territory according to road traffic and climatic conditions. The duration of stable warm and cold year periods is used as the main criteria for zoning. The changes of these parameters on the territory of Russia from the base climatic period (1961–1990) and through the next 25 years (1991–2015) are considered; the statistical significance of these changes is estimated. The zoning maps are presented according to the data for the two time periods. The displacement of the zones’ boundaries due to warming is about 200–300 km. This distance is comparable to the length of the Russian Federation’s subjects. The consequences of the global warming for the road traffic in Russia are ambiguous. In general, the reduction of the cold season observed almost everywhere in Russia has a positive effect on motor transport. But such unfavorable conditions like snowfalls and zero-crossing of air temperature have increased in some parts of Russia. Regions with a high density of roads are located in neutral and favorable zones according to road traffic and meteorological conditions.
Keywords
automobile transport,
climate change,
snow,
zero-crossing of air temperature,
stable warm season,
stable cold season,
zoning of Russia’s territory
Supporting agencies: The work was carried out in the Institute of Geography RAS with the financial support of the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 16-17-10236.
About the Author
A. V. Shiryaeva
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Moscow
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Shiryaeva A.V. Updating Climatic Zoning of Russian Territory by Road Traffic Conditions in Connection with Continued Warming. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2021;85(4):595-606. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587556621040099
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