scholarly journals Frosty, Freezing and Severe Freezing Days and Their Synoptic Implications in Małopolska, Southern Poland, 1951–2000

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuzanna Bielec-Bąkowska ◽  
Ewa Łupikasza
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Characteristics ◽  
Tatra Mountains ◽  
Air Mass ◽  
Southern Poland ◽  
Probability Of Occurrence ◽  
The Carpathians ◽  
Southern Sector ◽  
Synoptic Conditions ◽  
The Tatra Mountains

Abstract This study discusses the occurrence of days with unique thermal characteristics for the period 1951-2000. The authors investigated longterm variability, probability of occurrence and synoptic conditions favourable to frosty (tmin≤0˚C ∧ tmax>0˚C), freezing (tmax<0˚C) and severe freezing (tmax<-10˚C) days at six stations in the southern part of Poland. The occurrence of frosty days is characterized by the highest diversity, both in spatial and temporal terms and these days depend on the landform to the highest degree. The number of freezing days ranged from 28-30 in the foothills of the Carpathians to 147 at 2000 m a.s.l. in the Tatra Mountains, with severe freezing days from ca. 2 to ca. 18 days respectively, though no distinct trends were noted in their long-term progression. The anticyclonic situations and air mass advection from the southern sector (frosty days), from the east, south-east and north (freezing and severe freezing days) were the most favourable for the days examined.

scholarly journals Changes in Thermal Conditions in the High Mountain Areas and Contemporary Warming in the Central Europe

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elwira Żmudzka
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Characteristics ◽  
Thermal Conditions ◽  
Seasonal Distribution ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Tatra Mountains ◽  
Upward Trend ◽  
Mountain Areas ◽  
Weather Stations ◽  
The Tatra Mountains

Abstract The purpose of the report is to determine trends in thermal conditions in the Polish part of the Tatra Mountains. The results of studies were compared with the results of analogous analyses, carried out for the area of lowland Poland. The study makes use of the data from the weather stations in Zakopane and on Kasprowy Wierch Mt. from the years 1951-2006, mainly from 1966-2006. The thermal conditions in lowland Poland was determined on the basis of the area-averaged time series (45 stations). Various thermal characteristics were considered. The increase of the rate of upward trend in temperature at the turn of the 21st century, as well as the change of the seasonal distribution of the warming in comparison with the preceding long-term periods, have been documented. Symptoms of increase of the thermal continentality have also been observed.

Marysia’s Voice

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Wrazen
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Tatra Mountains ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Southern Poland ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Happy Marriage ◽  
The Tatra Mountains ◽  
Sense Of Home

This chapter examines the life and career of Marysia Mąka. She spent her childhood and early adulthood in the Podhale region in the Tatra Mountains of southern Poland as a Górale or Highlander, singing with local groups. In 1992, at age twenty-nine, she migrated to Toronto, Canada, where singing enabled her to sustain and renew her sense of personal identity in relation to motherhood and ethnicity. Within a framework of dislocation, local contexts, and a happy marriage and family life, Marysia creates community through her singing and compositions, using her voice to maintain connections to landscape, people, a sense of home, and language.

Sediment transport by uprooting in the forested part of the Tatra Mountains, southern Poland

CATENA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 160 ◽  
pp. 329-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dariusz Strzyżowski ◽  
Joanna Fidelus-Orzechowska ◽  
Mirosław Żelazny
Keyword(s):  
Sediment Transport ◽  
Tatra Mountains ◽  
Southern Poland ◽  
The Tatra Mountains

scholarly journals Synoptic climatology of fog in selected locations of southern Poland (1966–2015)

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Łupikasza ◽  
Tadeusz Niedźwiedź
Keyword(s):  
Atmospheric Circulation ◽  
High Probability ◽  
Synoptic Climatology ◽  
Annual Number ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Air Mass ◽  
Southern Poland ◽  
Circulation Types ◽  
Annual Scale

Abstract This paper investigates fog frequency in southern Poland in relation to various topography (concave and convex forms) and atmospheric circulation types. It also discusses long-term variability in the annual and seasonal number of days with fog. Daily information on fog occurrence was taken from three high quality synoptic stations representing various landforms: Kraków-Balice (bottom of the hollow), Katowice-Muchowiec (Silesian Upland) and Bielsko-Aleksandrowice (summit of Carpathian Foothill). In the central part of southern Poland during the last 50 years (1966-2015) fog occurred on average during 53-67 days a year. The annual number of foggy days in Kraków (67 days) located in a structural basin was by 14-15 days higher than in Bielsko (53 days) situated in the Silesian Foothills. In the annual course, high fog occurrence (above 6 days per month) was observed from September to January, with the maximum in Kraków (10 days in October). At every station the monthly minimum of fog occurrence fell in July (2 days). In summer and spring the highest probability of fog occurrence was found on days with anticyclonic types and air advection from the northeastern (Na, NEa) and eastern (Ea, SEa) sectors. In autumn, a high probability was also found for the anticyclonic types with advection of air mass from the eastern and southern sectors. In the Carpathian Foothills (Bielsko) the probability of fog occurrence in winter was significantly enhanced only for the cyclonic types with air advection from the eastern sector (NEc, Ec, SEc) and nonadvective types Cc (cyclone centre) and Bc (cyclonic trough). Trends in the fog frequency were mostly insignificant. The only significant decreasing trend was found in Kraków on the annual scale and in summer when fog frequency was low.

scholarly journals Endemic taxa of vascular plants in the Polish Carpathians

2011 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Halina Piękoś-Mirkowa ◽  
Zbigniew Mirek
Keyword(s):  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Tatra Mountains ◽  
The Carpathians ◽  
Polish Carpathians ◽  
The Tatra Mountains

The Carpathians, particularly their highest massif, the Tatra Mountains, exhibit the greatest richness of endemics in Poland. The present paper is a critical recapitulation of existing knowledge of endemism among the vascular plants of the Polish part of the Carpathians. It comprises a list of all 110 taxa (49 species, 26 microspecies of the genus <em>Alchemilla </em>and 35 conspicuous subspecies) that can be considered Carpathian endemics or subendemics. Their distribution, vertical ranges and habitats are characterized.

scholarly journals Long-term changes in the hydrological regime of high mountain Lake Morskie Oko (Tatra Mountains, Central Europe)

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariusz Ptak ◽  
Dariusz Wrzesiński ◽  
Adam Choiński
Keyword(s):  
Atmospheric Precipitation ◽  
Hydrological Regime ◽  
Ice Cover ◽  
Mountain Lake ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Tatra Mountains ◽  
High Mountain Lake ◽  
Long Term Changes ◽  
The Tatra Mountains

AbstractThe paper discusses changes in the hydrological regime of high mountain Lake Morskie Oko located in the Tatra Mountains, in the Tatra Mountains National Park, a UNESCO biosphere reserve (MaB). According to the research conducted in the years 1971–2015, its water stages decreased by 3.5 cm·dec−1, mean annual water temperature increased by 0.3°C·dec−1and the duration of ice phenomena and ice cover was reduced by 10 day·dec−1. No considerable changes in maximum values of ice cover thickness were recorded. Such tendencies are primarily caused by long-term changes in climatic conditions – air temperature and atmospheric precipitation. The hydrological regime of the lake was also determined by changes in land use in the lake’s catchment and its location in high mountains.

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