Is Bulgaria becoming warmer and drier?

✍ Scribed by Stefan B. Velev

• Book ID: 104654319
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 592 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0343-2521
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00183412

✦ Synopsis

This article attempts to analyse the current climatic variations based on air temperature and precipitation data from 18 stations for the 1916-1993 period. No substantial changes have been established in the annual air temperatures, averaged over the whole country's area, but there is evidence of late fall cooling and winter warming in the recent decade. A marked drought set in during 1982-1993, which in SW Bulgaria which reached a record level for the last 100 years both in terms of its duration and intensity. Climatolgical patterns contributing to these observations are discussed.