MOUNTAIN CLIMATOLOGY AND PAST AND POTENTIAL FUTURE CLIMATIC CHANGES IN MOUNTAIN REGIONS: A REVIEW

摘要: Climatic knowledge of mountain regions is limited by paucity observations and insufficient theoretical attention to processes within these regions. This review article discusses the basic controls climate scales climatic features, illustrates data availability in several mountainous Areas where our understanding incomplete include orographic precipitation, especially extreme events, pollutant transport deposition, effects forest cover on evapotranspiration runoff. Sources evidence for past conditions areas are surveyed particular aspects mountain-lowland differences during last glacial maximum, Little Ice Age, 100-year observational record noted. Finally, analogue modeling approaches assessing potential future states discussed context areas. The significance such terms snow snowmelt runoff described. survey concludes with a series recommendations necessary actions.