A Bokwa1, P Dobrovolný2, T Gál3, J Geletič2, Á Gulyás3, M J Hajto4, J Holec7, B Hollósi5, R Kielar4, M Lehnert6, N Skarbit3, P Šťastný7, M Švec7, J Unger3, J P Walawender4,1 and M Žuvela-Aloise5
1Jagiellonian University, Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Gronostajowa St. 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
2Global Change Research Centre AS CR, Belidla St. 986/4a, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic
3Department of Climatology and Landscape Ecology, University of Szeged, Egyetem u. 2., 6720 Szeged, Hungary
4Institute of Meteorology and Water Management - National Research Institute, Piotra Borowego St. 14, 30-215 Kraków, Poland
5Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, Hohe Warte St. 38, 1190 Vienna, Austria
6Palacký University Olomouc, Krizkovskeho St. 511/8, 77147 Olomouc, Czech Republic
7Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute, Jeseniova St. 17, 83315 Bratislava, Slovakia
E-mail: anita.bokwa@uj.edu.pl
Summary: Urban areas are among those most endangered with the potential global climate changes. The studies concerning the impact of global changes on local climate of cities are of a high significance for the urban inhabitants' health and wellbeing. This paper is the final report of a project (Urban climate in Central European cities and global climate change) with the aim to raise the public awareness on those issues in five Central European cities: Szeged (Hungary), Brno (Czech Republic), Bratislava (Slovakia), Kraków (Poland) and Vienna (Austria). Within the project, complex data concerning local geomorphological features, land use and long-term climatological data were used to perform the climate modelling analyses using the model MUKLIMO_3 provided by the German Weather Service (DWD).
Key words: urban climate, climate change, urban climate model, heat load
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*This paper is the edited version of the final report of the Urban climate in Central European cities and global climate change project, submitted in 2015.
