Influence of Climate Conditions on the Man in Arid Lands of European Russia

Abstract

During the global warming, the increase of frequency of heat waves, which courses the augmentation of mortality of sick people. Also the heat waves can be a result of restrictions of duration of outdoor works that is especially important for droughty areas of European Russia. The relationship between the thermal influence increase on the man and processes of desertification connected climate warming is obvious. The examination of the territory from the point of view of its extremeness and possible exhibiting there of catastrophic processes, was supplemented by investigation of the influence of temperature on the people. In this investigation effective temperature, the heat waves, and daily average amplitude of air temperature are used. The basic tendencies of the thermal load modification on the people in Russian south areas for the last decades were defi ned. The combined analysis of monthly average thermal load indexes on the people and seasonal average anomalies of NDVI shows, that the thermal load on the people increased in the years with the greatest decreasing of phytomass.