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We examine some issues related to a classification of climates. A climatic regionalization has been carried out, and a brief characteristic given to the identified types of climate. It has been found that the relationship of the sums of mean daily ground air temperatures above 10 °C and the dryness index show a clearly pronounced zonal distribution. The combination of sums of mean daily air temperatures below −10 °C and the depth of snow in the northern part of the plain is characterized by a horizontal distribution, and only in the middle and southern parts of the plain do these indices acquire zonal regularities. An analysis is made of the long-term dynamics of air temperature to reveal that some climate warming during 1981–2010 was mainly caused by a rise in winter air temperature.
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Original Russian Text © I.E. Trofimova, A.S. Balybina, 2014, published in Geography and Natural Resources, 2014, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 11–21.
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Trofimova, I.E., Balybina, A.S. Classification of climates and climatic regionalization of the West-Siberian plain. Geogr. Nat. Resour. 35, 114–122 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1875372814020024
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