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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics

2015 year, number 11

About the influence of modern changes in the lower stratiform clouds on the temperature regime of surface air over Siberia

V.S. Komarov, G.G. Matvienko, S.N. Il’in, N.Ya. Lomakina
V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, 1, Academician Zuev square, Tomsk, 634021, Russia
Keywords: нижняя слоистообразная облачность, количество облачности, приземная температура воздуха, тренды, Сибирский регион, lower stratiform clouds, cloud amount, air temperature, trends, Siberian region

Abstract

The paper presents the analysis of the influence of the lower stratiform clouds (Sc, St, Ns) on long-term changes in surface temperature, performed for Siberia using the results of zoning of the territory according to cloudiness conditions. It has been shown that there is a weakly marked increase in the amount of low stratiform clouds during all seasons in the last 45-year period (from 1969 to 2013), which is accompanied by a quite noticeable increase in the surface temperature, especially in the polar regions.