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Climate Changes in the Aral Sea Region and Central Asia

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The long-term annual, semiannual, and seasonal dynamics of the main meteorological ecosystem characteristics (total atmospheric precipitation and average, maximum, and minimum air temperature) are analyzed for the Aral Sea region and central Asia by their trends for a long-term period of 70–125 years until 2014 with the use of the diurnal records from eight meteorological stations of the WMO (the Aral Sea, Chimbai, Tamdy, Torgai, Irgiz, Samarkand, Turkestan, Chardzhou). Based on an analysis of the combined humidity- temperature regime for the long-term period, the main trends of climate changes are established, the share of variations in each meteorological characteristic is estimated by the proposed relative coefficient of variations in meteorological characteristics (RCV), and the impact of the climate changes on the ecosystems is studied.

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Original Russian Text © Zh.V. Kuzmina, S.E. Treshkin, 2016, published in Aridnye Ekosistemy, 2016, Vol. 22, No. 4(69), pp. 5–20.

This work was performed on research subject 1.3.9. “Development of Estimated Indices and Criteria of Transformation of Land Ecosystems in Relation to the Change in Water Regime of the Territories” as part of research work 1.3. in the fundamental studies at the Institute of Water Problems, Russian Academy of Scineces “Development of Scientific Bases for the Theory of Forming Land Water Quality, Methods for Studying Dynamics of Water and Land Ecosystems, and Improvement of Complex Monitoring of Water Bodies,” state registration no. 01201357580.

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Kuzmina, Z.V., Treshkin, S.E. Climate Changes in the Aral Sea Region and Central Asia. Arid Ecosyst 6, 227–240 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079096116040028

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