Estimation of the lakes’ thermohydrodynamic changes under the impact of regional climate change

Abstract

Global climate change is accepted by the larger part of the scientific world. The issue most hotly discussed is the causes of global warming and, in particular, the role of the human component. At the same time many scientists point out the inhomogeneity of the influence of global warming in various regions of the planet. Thus by the end of the last century the mean annual temperature of the atmospheric surface layer had increased by by 0.6°C, while on Russian territory it had increased by 0.9°C (Melesko et al., 2004).