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Response of high-mountain Altai thermal regime to climate global warming of recent decades

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The paper presents a brief climatic characteristic and statistical analysis on dynamics of thermal regime in Altai Mountains. The close correlation between temperature series of the Russian and northern part of Mongolian Altai was determined. It was found that the rate of temperature increase for the period under consideration (1940–2008) ranged from 0.19 to 0.53 °С/10 years, and the most significant increase was registered during the cold seasons. During the maximum global warming (1980–1999), a 2–4.5 times increase of annual average temperature was observed as compared to the period of 1940–1979. The temperature series variations obtained with the Welch's method and wavelet analysis correspond to the periods of North Atlantic Oscillation and solar activity variation.

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The authors would like to express appreciation to O. Lovtskaya, a senior researcher of IWEP SB RAS, who assisted substantially in performing the comparative analysis of meteorological data from different sources of information.

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  1. Institute for Water and Environmental Problems SB RAS, 1 Molodezhnaya St, Barnaul, 656038, Russia

    N. N. Bezuglova, G. S. Zinchenko, N. S. Malygina & T. S. Papina

  2. CEREGE, CNRS UMR7330, Collège de France, IRD, Europôle de l’Arbois, Aix-Marseille University, BP 80, 13545, Aix-en-Provence, France

    T. V. Barlyaeva

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Bezuglova, N.N., Zinchenko, G.S., Malygina, N.S. et al. Response of high-mountain Altai thermal regime to climate global warming of recent decades. Theor Appl Climatol 110, 595–605 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-012-0710-2

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