Monitoring the Changes of Temperature Indices Under Climate Change Conditions

Authors

  • Khalil A. A.   Central Laboratory for Agricultural Climate (CLAC), Agricultural Research Center (ARC), Egypt

Keywords:

Maximum and Minimum Temperatures, Temperature Indices and Climate Change.

Abstract

Weather and climate temperature extreme events may have major impacts on society, economy, ecosystems, and on human health; they drive natural and human systems much more than the average climate. The aim of this study is to monitor and analyze the changes of temperature indices based on future climate data in Egypt. The monitoring has been done on the basis of assessing the changes of four temperature indices (Maximum maximum temperature (TXx), Minimum minimum temperature (TNn), Frost days and summer days) according to future climate data. The climate change data has been obtained from downscaling on global climate model ECHAM6 of scenario RCP 4.5 by a horizontal resolution 50 km during the period from 2010 up to 2090, and the results indicated that, the highest TXx was observed during the period 2080-2089 while lowest TNn was observed during the period 2010-2019 in the most of Egypt Governorates. Also it has been observed that, the maximum number of frost days was observed in 2010 decade while the maximum number of summer days in winter season was observed in 2080 decade at most of Egypt governorates.

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Khalil A. A. , " Monitoring the Changes of Temperature Indices Under Climate Change Conditions, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJSRSET), Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp.69-76, January-February-2018.