CONTEMPORARY CLIMATE CHANGES AS A FACTOR FOR CENTRAL RUSSIAN FOREST-STEPPE LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT (IN THE KURSK REGION TAKEN AS AN EXAMPLE)

Abstract

The main common factors of space-time allocation of the main meteorological parameters and estimate climate indicators characterizing hydrothermal regime at the territory of the Kursk Region have been reviewed in the investigation. The maps of climatic territory zoning in the Region have been worked out basing on dynamics of climatic characteristics indicators. The investigation methods have had a complex character: analysis of scientific and reference books, examination and estimation of climatic parameters in the field conditions: cartographic, mathematic and statistic methods have been used to process and present the obtained materials.