VISUALIZATION OF APPLIED CLIMATIC INFORMATION FOR USERS
Based on open source data various ways to visualize climate information on maps have been analyzed in terms of convenience for final users who are often not climate scientists. The variety of imaging methods as well as their main advantages and disadvantages are shown. On the examples of the constituent entities of three Federal districts (Central Northwestern and North Caucasian) versions of adding or replacing cartographic information are proposed with the help of diagrams to facilitate a comparison of indicators and perception of results. Several meteorological parameters have been analyzed in each constituent entity of the Russian Federation: average annual surface air temperature, average annual amount of precipitation and the difference between precipitation and evaporation, as well as cloud cover for the summer and winter seasons. Graphs of changes of this parameter for three periods of time (base 1981-2000, as well as 2041-2060 and 2080-2099 of the RCP8.5 scenario) successfully perform the function of comparing climate information for different constituent entities and regions for various years and show the variability more clearly than the source cards.