Thermal stress in the northern Carpathians and air circulation

Krzysztof Błażejczyk (), Pavol Nejedlik (), Oleh Skrynyk (), Agnieszka Halaś (), Olesya Skrynyk (), Jarosław Baranowski () and Katarina Mikulova ()
Additional contact information
Krzysztof Błażejczyk: Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Climate Impacts Laboratory, WarsawPoland
Pavol Nejedlik: Earth Science Institute of Slovak Academy of Science, BratislavaSlovakia
Oleh Skrynyk: Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, WarsawPoland
Agnieszka Halaś: Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, WarsawPoland
Olesya Skrynyk: National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, KievUkraine
Jarosław Baranowski: Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Climate Impacts Laboratory, WarsawPoland
Katarina Mikulova: Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute, BratislavaSlovakia

Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development, 2020, vol. 24, issue 3, 147-160

Abstract: In mountain areas, air circulation plays a major role in the forming of the climate. This paper examines how it influences thermal stress in the northern Carpathians. The Niedźwiedź’s classification of air circulation was applied. Thermal stress was assessed by Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI). Daily meteorological and circulation data for the period 1986–2015 were used for 20 stations in Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine. Air circulation was found to have a significant impact on thermal stress. The highest UTCI values are observed at Ca+Ka (centre of the high and anticyclonic wedge or ridge of high pressure) and the lowest values at N+NE and W+NW circulation; at the Southward stations, UTCI is higher than in the Northward ones; thermoneutral days are more frequent on the southward than on the northward slopes; during N+NE, E+SE and W+NW circulation and for heat stress days, the greatest thermal privilege of the southward slopes is observed at E+SE, S+SW, Ca+Ka and Cc+Bc (centre of low and through of low pressure) types of circulation.

Keywords: Northern Carpathians; thermal stress; UTCI; air circulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2020-0022 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vrs:mgrsod:v:24:y:2020:i:3:p:147-160:n:6

DOI: 10.2478/mgrsd-2020-0022

Access Statistics for this article

Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development is currently edited by Maciej Jędrusik

More articles in Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development from Sciendo
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().