The north atlantic oscillation and winter precipitation totals in Slovakia

Labudová Lívia; Pavel Šťastný; Milan Trizna

doi:10.2478/mgr-2013-0019

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The north atlantic oscillation and winter precipitation totals in Slovakia

Moravian Geographical Reports

Volume 21 (2013): Issue 4 (December 2013)

By: Labudová Lívia, Pavel Šťastný and Milan Trizna

Open Access

|Mar 2014

Abstract

The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is the most important circulation phenomenon in the Northern Atlantic which impacts climate in Europe in various ways. Precipitation is a basic climatic element which affects the landscape significantly. Therefore in this paper, the relationship between the NAO and winter precipitation in Slovakia is analysed. A Spearman’s correlation analysis was used, which detected the impacts of NAO on the above-mentioned seasonal precipitation in different regions of Slovakia. The correlation coefficients obtained positive values in the region of Orava and Kysuce and changed to negative ones in a southward direction. The detected zonal configuration can be explained by the topographic barrier effect of the Carpathians

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2013-0019 | Journal eISSN: 2199-6202 | Journal ISSN: 1210-8812

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Keywords:

North Atlantic Oscillation,

winter precipitation totals,

precipitation regions,

Spearman’s correlation analysis,

Slovakia

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