Winter severity and snowiness and their multiannual variability in the Karkonosze Mountains and Jizera Mountains

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00704-017-2270-y" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00704-017-2270-y</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00704-017-2270-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00704-017-2270-y</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Winter severity and snowiness and their multiannual variability in the Karkonosze Mountains and Jizera Mountains

Original language description

This paper analyses winter severity and snow conditions in the Karkonosze Mountains and Jizera Mountains and examines their long-term trends. The analysis used modified comprehensive winter snowiness (WSW) and winter severity (WOW) indices as defined by Paczos (1982). An attempt was also made to determine the relationship between the WSW and WOW indices. Measurement data were obtained from eight stations operated by the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management – National Research Institute (IMGW–PIB), from eight stations operated by the Czech Hydrological and Meteorological Institute (CHMI) and also from the Meteorological Observatory of the University of Wrocław (UWr) on Mount Szrenica. Essentially, the study covered the period from 1961 to 2015. In some cases, however, the period analysed was shorter due to the limited availability of data, which was conditioned, inter alia, by the period of operation of the station in question, and its type. Viewed on a macroscale, snow conditions in the Karkonosze Mountains and Jizera Mountains (in similar altitude zones) are clearly more favourable on southern slopes than on northern ones. In the study area, negative trends have been observed with respect to both the WSW and WOW indices—winters have become less snowy and warmer. The correlation between the WOW and WSW indices is positive. At stations with northern macroexposure, WOW and WSW show greater correlation than at ones with southern macroexposure. This relationship is the weakest for stations that are situated in the upper ranges (Mount Śnieżka and Mount Szrenica).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10509 - Meteorology and atmospheric sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

ISSN

0177-798X

e-ISSN

1434-4483

Volume of the periodical

134

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-2

Country of publishing house

AT - AUSTRIA

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

221-240

UT code for WoS article

000446552300016

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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