HEAT WAVES IN RUSSIA AS THE UNCOMFORTABLE FACTOR OF THE ENVIRONMENT
https://doi.org/10.7868/S0373244417040065
Abstract
Assessment of change of the number, intensity and duration of heat waves during summer (June−August) on the territory of Russia for various periods from 1951 to 2010 was carried out according to the meteorological network. Defining the criteria of extreme events depends on the choice of thresholds. In this paper the thresholds for determining the heat waves are considered as the values of 95th percentile of maximum daily temperature distribution. The choice of criterion is associated with its versatility, because a significant length of Russia from North to South does not permit to select the only critical value of temperature that determines the onset of the heat wave for the whole territory. Analysis of the results shows an increase in the number of days with abnormally high temperatures, since the 1990s. The most significant increase is seen in the European part of Russia and the Far East. Heat waves were classified by the level of discomfort. The adverse impact of this factor on human increased nowadays. The increase in heat load in the period of contemporary climate warming to the absolutely and extremely unfavorable values mainly due to the increase in the number of days with extremely high temperatures are shown. These changes are characteristic for areas located in the Northeast and in the European part of Russia.
About the Author
V. V. Vinogradova
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Moscow
Russian Federation
Moscow
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Vinogradova V.V. HEAT WAVES IN RUSSIA AS THE UNCOMFORTABLE FACTOR OF THE ENVIRONMENT. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2017;(4):68-77. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.7868/S0373244417040065
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