DROUGHTS IN EASTERN GEORGIA

11th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM2011, www.sgem.org, SGEM2011 Conference Proceedings/ ISSN 1314-2704, June 20-25, 2011, Vol. 2, 1229-1232 pp

ABSTRACT

To study the distribution and repetition of droughts, an archive of droughts has been
created in eastern Georgia for 19 meteorological stations for the vegetation period
between 1961 and 2008. It has been evaluated geographic and meteorological
conditions of droughts formation: conditions of humidity, temperature background,
hydrothermal regime of soils. It has been studied the territorial distribution and
probability of dry months, repetition of droughts within a season and a month, severe
and ultra-severe droughts. It has been analyzed a multi-year dynamics of droughts
against the background of global warming.

Keywords: Drought, Humidity