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Climate Variation or Climate Change? Evidence in Favour in the Northern Adriatic Area, Croatia

Global warming is getting ever more concerning. Meteorological parameters such as yearly mean temperature, minimum and maximum temperature, relative humidity, yearly precipitation depth as well as number of days with rain obtained in he meteorological station in Rijeka ( 120 m a.s.l)were analysed. The time series included data from 1977-2010. The data analyses showed increase in yearly average temperature by 0, 3-0, 6 oC, and increase of daily maximum by approx. 10oC over the period studied. In spite of declining trend in precipitation depth until 2007, the number of rainy days increased approx. 30 days at the same time, suggesting switching to warmer an more humid climate. The last 3 years data show the opposing rend thus smoothing these trends. The first evidence of climate variation and/or climate change might be the appearance of Asian tiger mosquitoes (Aedes albopictus) recently, as wečll as sea elevation in the Northern Adriatic.

climate variation ; global warming ; temperature ; precipitation depth

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