Description: Das Projekt "Climate change and precipitation variability in the tropics: An assessment for highaltitude regions with data obtained near the summit of Kilimanjaro (Climate change Kilimanjaro)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Geographie durchgeführt. Here I propose to investigate the vertical variation of precipitation variability on a tropical high mountain (Kilimanjaro, 5895 m a.s.l.), in order to expand knowledge of climate variability in the tropics. On Kilimanjaro (located in Equatorial East Africa: 3.1Grad C S / 37.4Grad C E), we are currently recording unique climate data in the summit region (see section 3). This happens within efforts to understand the glacier-climate interaction and recession of glaciers on Africas highest mountain as well as the large-scale climate dynamics behind. Here, the specific questions are: (1) Is precipitation variability at higher altitude of similar magnitude to the one at low altitudes? (2) Which physics (of the atmosphere) are responsible for the spatially even or uneven precipitation variability with altitude?
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Origin: /Bund/UBA/UFORDAT
Tags: Brunnen ? Fällungsreaktion ? Gletscher ? Klimavariabilität ? Physik ? Topographie ? Innsbruck ? Ostafrika ? Berg ? Daten ? Tropengebiet ? Hochgebirge ? Afrika ? Atmosphäre ? Klima ? Klimawandel ? Niederschlag ? Gebiet ? Gebirge ? Änderung ? Klimadaten ? Bereich ? Erlass [Recht] ? Frage ? Initiative ? Wechselwirkung ? Wirtschaftskrise ? spezifisch ? vorschlagen ? äquatorial ?
License: cc-by-nc-nd/4.0
Language: Deutsch
Time ranges: 2007-10-01 - 2007-12-31
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