CLIMATE ASSESSMENT AND RISK ANALYSIS IN WESTERN AND NORTHWESTERN ROMANIA

Abstract

The study of meteorological-climatic phenomena, especially of extreme phenomena that have become more and more frequent, has gained greater significance, given the increasing awareness of the importance of preventing material damage. Thus, monitoring and analysis of atmospheric risk phenomena helps local and national authorities whose duty is to protect the population and property of any kind, and early warning regarding the occurrence of such phenomena is useful to each individual. The western and north-western part of Romania, like the whole country, due to its geographical position, in the temperate area, is exposed to a wide range of risky meteorologicalclimatic phenomena which may potentially occur throughout the year. The present paper aims to identify certain meteorological aspects, which most correctly express the extreme character of the manifestations of some meteorological parameters. The data provided by the Banat Crisana and Northern Transylvania Meteorological Centers highlighted the evolution of certain risk parameters from two representative meteorological stations in these areas, Timisoara and Satu Mare, over a period of forty years. The study of meteorological-climatic phenomena, especially of extreme phenomena that have become more and more frequent, has gained greater significance, given the increasing awareness of the importance of preventing material damage. Thus, monitoring and analysis of atmospheric risk phenomena helps local and national authorities whose duty is to protect the population and property of any kind, and early warning regarding the occurrence of such phenomena is useful to each individual. The western and north-western part of Romania, like the whole country, due to its geographical position, in the temperate area, is exposed to a wide range of risky meteorological-climatic phenomena which may potentially occur throughout the year. The present paper aims to identify certain meteorological aspects, which most correctly express the extreme character of the manifestations of some meteorological parameters.