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Climate Change Scenarios and Impacts for the Mountain Regions at Middle Latitudes

A special issue of Climate (ISSN 2225-1154). This special issue belongs to the section "Climate and Environment".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 906

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Teodoro Georgiadis

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Institute of BioEconomic-National Research Council (IBE-CNR), Via Piero Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy
Interests: urban climate; urban meteorology; urban pollution; urban planning
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Dr. Massimiliano Fazzini

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URDIS, University of Camerino, Lungomare Scipioni 6, 63074 San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy
Interests: climate variability; alpine climatology and meteorology; water resources; hydrology; climate change; physical geography; climate change mitigation and adaptation
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Dr. Letizia Cremonini

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Dear Colleagues,

Rapid changes in the climate have been recorded on a global scale since the beginning of the industrial era. Temperature increases, changes in precipitation patterns, and the increased frequency and intensity of extreme climatic events characterize these developments.

Climate change is readily observable in the mountainous regions of the middle latitudes of two hemispheres; many scientists have described the European and American high mountains as sentinels of climate change. As a result, changes in climatic parameters have a strong impact on both the physical environment and the living world that characterize the different morpho-climatic environments at the spatial-altitudinal level. So, the mountain environment has important regional and mesoscale climatic features induced by the orography and characteristics of the Earth’s surface, such as the presence of snow and ice and large internal water bodies. At the same time, they are often densely populated, and several important economic sectors of the regions that comprise them are very sensitive to weather and climatic conditions. These include tourism, hydroelectric production, agriculture, forestry, and water supply.

This Special Issue wishes to highlight future scenarios both in terms of climate pattern modifications and the impacts of such modifications on the economic sectors.

Prof. Dr. Teodoro Georgiadis
Dr. Massimiliano Fazzini
Dr. Letizia Cremonini
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Keywords

  • climate trend
  • mountain climate
  • intermediate latitude
  • measured data
  • nivology

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Contemporary Tendencies in Snow Cover, Winter Precipitation, and Winter Air Temperatures in the Mountain Regions of Bulgaria
by Dimitar Nikolov and Cvetan Dimitrov
Climate 2025, 13(10), 212; https://doi.org/10.3390/cli13100212 (registering DOI) - 11 Oct 2025
Abstract
Snow is an essential meteorological variable and an indicator of the changing climate. Its variations, particularly in snow depth and snow water equivalent, result mainly from changes in winter precipitation and air temperature. Recently, these conditions have been thoroughly investigated worldwide, revealing a [...] Read more.
Snow is an essential meteorological variable and an indicator of the changing climate. Its variations, particularly in snow depth and snow water equivalent, result mainly from changes in winter precipitation and air temperature. Recently, these conditions have been thoroughly investigated worldwide, revealing a general prevailing decline in precipitation and increasing tendencies in air temperatures. However, no systematic or up-to-date studies for Bulgaria exist. The main goal of the current project is to fill this national knowledge gap in the snow conditions in our mountains. For that purpose, we used 31 stations with altitudes ranging from 527 to 2925 m a.s.l. for the period between 1961 and 2020, covering two significant reference climatic periods. We extracted data about snow cover maximums, mean air temperatures, and precipitation amounts for the whole winter season in mountainous regions from October to April; however, we mainly present the results for the three winter months: December, January, and February. Most of the stations do not demonstrate any significant trends for snow depth maximums, except for the three lower stations in central west Bulgaria, which show significant increases. On the opposite end of the scale, two of the highest stations demonstrated notable decreases. The time series for the precipitation amounts are also predominantly indefinite. Significant decreasing trends can be found at the highest three alpine stations. The change in the mean seasonal air temperature is predominantly positive—17 of the stations show positive trends, and for 12, the increases are significant. The altitude of the strongest seasonal temperature rise lies between 1000 and 1700 m. Finally, due to the obvious nonlinearity of some of the time series, we decided to check for change points and a nonlinear approach to fit the data. This analysis demonstrates general changes in the investigated characteristics from the beginning of the 1970s to the middle of the 1980s. Full article
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