Variability of the air temperature and atmospheric precipitation in the high-mountain positions of the Low and High Tatras in winter

Abstract

On the basis of the fifty three-year time series of air temperature and precipitation
in three levels of the atmospheric layer the seasonal variability of air temperature
and precipitation in the Low and High Tatras regions are studied. Measurements of
the air temperature and precipitation at the meteorological observatories Lomnick´y štít,
Skalnaté Pleso and Chopok during the 1955–2007 period were used to analyse the time
series in winter season, and compared with the corresponding results from the normal
period 1961–1990. By processing of the extensive experimental material many statistical
characteristics of the precipitation in the Low and High Tatra Mts were obtained.