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Title: PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE STUDY ON THE SNOWFALL CHANGES AND VARIATION OF MAXIMUM SNOW COVER DEPTH FOR THE TERRITORY OF BULGARIA (1961-2015)

PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE STUDY ON THE SNOWFALL CHANGES AND VARIATION OF MAXIMUM SNOW COVER DEPTH FOR THE TERRITORY OF BULGARIA (1961-2015)
D. Nikolov;L. Bocheva;T. Marinova;K. Malcheva;R. Evgeniev
1314-2704
English
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Snow cover is an important climatic factor and its changes have a strong influence on water resources and water balance in Bulgaria, as well as on the development of agriculture, tourism, transport and others. The main objective of this study is to analyze the long-term time series of snow cover depth and snow or mixed precipitation types, as well as to summarize the results for each administrative district in Bulgaria. Data from 246 weather stations of the meteorological network of the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology for the period 1961-2015 are used. All stations are divided into two groups according to their elevation ? lowlands (up to 800m altitude) and mountainous (above 800 m altitude). The frequency distribution of 24-hour precipitation amounts (snow or mixed types) is calculated in 20 mm increments, and then averaged for each of the 28 administrative districts. The precipitation amounts up to 20 mm have the highest frequency, while only individual cases of snowfall over 80 mm are observed. For lowlands, the mean maximum snow cover depth varies between 19.5 cm and 39.4 cm. In North West Bulgaria, the change of long-term average of the maximum snow cover depth is more smoothed, but the absolute maximums are lower than those for Central North and North East Bulgaria. For South Bulgaria the largest range of variation is observed in some districts of southeastern parts of the country.
conference
19th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2019
19th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2019, 30 June - 6 July, 2019
Proceedings Paper
STEF92 Technology
International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference-SGEM
Bulgarian Acad Sci; Acad Sci Czech Republ; Latvian Acad Sci; Polish Acad Sci; Russian Acad Sci; Serbian Acad Sci & Arts; Slovak Acad Sci; Natl Acad Sci Ukraine; Natl Acad Sci Armenia; Sci Council Japan; World Acad Sci; European Acad Sci, Arts & Letters; Ac
1025-1032
30 June - 6 July, 2019
website
cdrom
5935
snowfall; snow cover depth; regional distributions