Assessment of climate change in Central Asia from 1980 to 2100 using the Koppen-Geiger climate classification

• Published in: Atmosphere
• Main Authors: He, Huili, Luo, Geping, Cai, Peng, Hamdi, Rafiq, Termonia, Piet, De Maeyer, Philippe, Kurban, Alishir, Li, Jianjun
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Earth and Environmental Sciences; Central Asia; Kö ppen-Geiger climate classification; climatic zone; shifts; Geiger; Koppen; Tundra
• Online Access: https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8694642; http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8694642; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12010123; https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8694642/file/8694645

The accelerated global warming and heterogeneous change in precipitation have been resulting in climate system shifts, which plays a key role in the stability of ecosystem and social economic development. Central Asia is account 80% of the temperate desert, characterized by fragile ecosystem; howeve...