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The Observed and projected temperature changes in the Alpine region
Pinc, Martin ; Müller, Miloslav (advisor) ; Huth, Radan (referee)
The observed and projected temperature changes in the Alpine region Abstract The paper presents comparison and evaluation of articles literature of the mentioned topic with a focus of the Swiss and Wallis Alps. The first chapter describes the physical geography of the region and mostly reminds us with Alpine specifics related to the paper's goal - ocean-continental climate, typical wind movement (the wind "foehn"), slopes orientation a steepness, snow line, forest bounds, existence of glaciers and lakes - and then mostly characterizes the air temperature in recent years. The next chapter analyzes observed temperatures in more detail. Temperatures show a long-term trend of increasing, particularly from the year 1980. More steady development is presented by the mean day minimum, rather than maximum. There is some debate when comparing lowlands and highlands - some works show bigger increase in lowlands than in highlands, some vice versa. This might be caused by the research methodology. When analyzing seasonal trends, the highest altitude sensitivity belongs to the winter season; the smallest sensitivity to the autumn. It appears that when above the 0 řC isotherm, the altitude is a small factor of the warming differences. Two categorisations of the emission scenarios are applied when projecting the future air...
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The observed and projected temperature changes in the Alpine region and their consequences
Pinc, Martin ; Pokorná, Lucie (advisor) ; Treml, Václav (referee)
The observed and projected temperature changes in the Alpine region and their consequences Abstract This paper studies findings from researches that describe development of a climate change in the Alps. This text shows geography of the Alps, models that define future temperature changes and natural and human factors which affect climate change in the Alpine region. One of the main topics in this paper are possible consequences of the climate change. This paper studies climate change in the Swiss Alps and in Wallis Alps on Swiss-Italian border. The next section of this paper studies scenarios of climate change and divides them according to emission development. Paper also shows the projected temperature changes in the Alps. The main goal of this work is to accurately describe climate change models used in the Alpine region, to discuss their reliability and to determine in which cases the model temperatures differ from temperature data measured at meteorogical stations. Another goal of this work is to determine physical and human factors that contribute to surface temperature warming in the Alps. This paper also shows predictions of temperature development in the Alps and its possible consequences. In the Alps, The projected temperatures are compared with measured temperatures. Predicted temperatures are then...
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The observed and projected temperature changes in the Alpine region and their consequences
Pinc, Martin ; Pokorná, Lucie (advisor) ; Treml, Václav (referee)
The observed and projected temperature changes in the Alpine region and their consequences Abstract This paper studies findings from researches that describe development of a climate change in the Alps. This text shows geography of the Alps, and also models that define future temperature changes and natural and human factors which affect climate change in the Alpine region. One of the main topics in this paper are possible consequences of the climate change. This paper studies climate change in the Swiss Alps and in Wallis Alps on Swiss-Italian border. The next section of this paper studies scenarios of climate change and divides them according to emission development. Paper also shows the projected temperature changes in the Alps. The last chapter of this paper describes modelling of climate change using tree-ring based temperature reconstructions. The main goal of this work is to accurately describe climate change models used in the Alpine region, to discuss their reliability and to determine in which cases the model temperatures differ from temperature data measured at meteorogical stations. Another goal of this work is to determine physical and human factors that contribute to surface temperature warming in the Alps. This paper also shows predictions of temperature development in the Alps and its...
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