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DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-963-1-0168

IMPACT OF AIR TEMPERATURE DEVELOPMENT IN WINTER ON RECREATION

Jaroslav Rožnovský1,2, Milan Palát3
1 Czech Hydrometeorological department, branch Brno, Kroftova 43, 616 67 Brno, Czech Republic
2 Department of Breeding and Propagation of Horticultural Plants, Faculty of Horticulture, Mendel University in Brno Valtická 337, 691 44 Lednice, Czech Republic
3 Department of Quantitave methods, University of Defence, Brno, Czech Republic

Winter recreation is essentially fully dependent on the course of the air temperature. The occurrence of snow and ice in the landscape is conditioned by air temperatures below zero. However, climate change, typical of global warming, also manifests itself in the winter season. From the analysis of the air temperature databases at the climatological stations of the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, it follows that for the period 1961 to 2020, despite partial differences, it statistically significantly increases in winter. The increase in air temperature during this period ranges from 1 to 1.6 °C. In the southern parts of our territory, in several places, the average monthly temperature does not drop below zero in winter. This means that if it snows, the snow melts quickly, the natural areas of ice are for a short time, therefore unusable for recreation.

Keywords: global warming, seasons, snow, frosts

pages: 168-172, Published: 2024, online: 2024



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