BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACT ON THE CRN DRIM CATCHMENT AREA IN MACEDONIA Olivija Todorovik, Nina Stojanovska, Gorica Rikaloska Hydrometeorological Service Skupi bb, 1000 Skopje, Republic of MACEDONIA olivija@meteo.gov.mk   In this paper it will be presented the overview of the climate change and climate regimes of […]

BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   THE MOUNTAINS INFLUENCE ON TURKEY CLIMATE Serhat Sensoy Turkish State Meteorological Service P.O.Box:401 – Kalaba – Ankara, TURKEY ssensoy@meteor.gov.tr   Since the Black sea mountains at the north of the country and the Taurus mountains in the south lay parallel to the seashore and rise very sharply […]

BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   SOME PARTICULARITIES OF RAINFALL VARIABILITY IN A TRANSITION CLIMATE : CASE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE ZOU IN BENIN – WEST AFRICA Ibouraďma Yabi, Fulgence Afouda, Michel Boko Laboratory of Study of the Climates, Water Resources and Dynamics of Ecosystems (LECREDE) Department of Geography of the University […]

BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   EVALUATION OF URBANIZATION EFFECTS ON CLIMATE CHANGE OVER THE NORTH-EAST OF I.R. OF IRAN Alireza Shahabfar, Javad B. Jamali, Azadeh Ramesh Climatological Research Institute (CRI), I. R. of Iran Meteorological Organization P.O.Box: 91735-491, Mashhad-I.R. of IRAN azadehramesh@yahoo.com   Several climatological studies shown that human activities such as […]

BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   STUDY ON VARIABILITY OF TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION CONDITIONS IN THE SOUTH EASTERN BULGARIA Ivanka Koleva-Lizama1, Bernardo Lizama Rivas2 1University of Forestry, Sofia, Bulgaria. Department of Ecology 10 bul. Kliment Ochridski, 1756 Sofia, BULGARIA 2National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Sofia, BULGARIA, Department of Hydrology, 66 Tzarigradsko Shosse, […]

BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   ASSESSMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE USING METHODS OF MATHEMATIC STATISTICS AND THEORY OF PROBABILITY Lidija Trajanoska1, Ivancho Kaevski2, 1Hydrometeorological Service, Skupi BB, Skopje, Republic of MACEDONIA 2 Water Development Institute of Republic of MACEDONIA lidija@meteo.gov.mk   In simple terms: “Climate” is the average of “weather”. The Earth’s weather […]

BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   EL-NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) PHASE BASED MAPPING OF REGIONS AT RISK OF DROUGHT AND FLOOD RELATED DISASTERS OVER THE EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICAN SUBREGIONS Abushen W. Majugu Department of Meteorology, P.O. Box 7025 Kampala, UGANDA abushen_majugu@hotmail.com   The mapping of regions at high risk of drought and flood […]

BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   TROPICAL NORTH AFRICA HYDROCLIMATE VARIABILITY Abebe Yeshanew National Meteorological Services Agency, P. O. Box 1090, Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA. ayesha@telecom.net.et   NCEP/NCAR data are used to study the modulating circulations of the hydroclimate of tropical North Africa. Wavelet analysis is used to identify modes of variability of stream […]

BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   INVESTIGATION OF THE MASS-ENERGY EXCHANGE IN THE REGION OF “KOPRINKA”LAKE Julia Ivancheva, Anna Tzenkova National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Sofia, BULGARIA Ani.Tzenkova@meteo.bg   The components of the mass-energy budget are the main factor responsible for the local climate variability. In the frame of the complex field […]

BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON AGRICULTURE PARTICULARLY IN SEMI-ARID TROPICS OF THE WORLD WITH SOME EXAMPLES OF ETHIOPIAN CONDITION Almaz Demessie Tropical Agricultural Development (Crop Protection) Ethiopian Meteorological Services Agency, ETHIOPIA ssimretds@yahoo.com   Today climate change is a burning issue all over the world because of its […]