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6 Abstract The thesis deals with detailed analysis of the climate change rate throughout the European continent with an emphasis on Central Europe in the period 1951-2005. The main aim was to find out whether the rate of climate change is getting lower or higher during the monitored period and identify when the changes in the rate occurred. Changes of three climatic elements - minimum air temperature, maximum air temperature, and precipitation, were described for climatic seasons of the year. Other climatic elements were also available, however, amount of data is insufficient for such a detailed trend analysis for the entire second half of the 20th century. First part of the thesis summarizes current knowledge of changes in climate change rate, which is so far rather scarce. Most scientific articles are limited to detecting warming or cooling, decrease or increase in precipitation during a certain period. They, however, do not research when these changes of climatic elements occurred. For my analysis, which tries to offer a detailed insight into changes in European climate, daily records from European Climate Assessment and Dataset (ECA&D) database of 122 stations (spaced as evenly as possible) were used. For examining variability trends (i.e. the rate of climate change) I tested moving 20-year trend (15-... |
