Variations of mean annual minimum temperatures in the French Mediterranean region from 1951 to 2010

Annick Douguédroit (1) , Sébastien Bridier (2)

1 ESPACE - Études des Structures, des Processus d’Adaptation et des Changements de l’Espace
2 LPED - Laboratoire Population-Environnement-Développement

This paper aims at comparing the evolution from 1950 to 2010 of the average annual minimum temperatures of 34 stations in the French Mediterranean region with the mean global average temperatures with a significant rise in temperatures between 1950 and 2012 divided into two periods, first a slowly descending one till the 70’s followed by a second ascending up quickly till the end of the century (Stork et al., 2013). The environment of the French stations has been determined from georeferenced documents of different dates. Their linear evolution has been studied from a dual linear regression starting one at the beginning of the period, the other at the end with the aim of determining if it presented a succession of two periods with different evolution separated by a rupture.

Mots clés: annual minimum temperature (1950-2010); French Mediterranean area; evolution; environment

Domaines: Sciences de l'environnement

Annick Douguédroit, Sébastien Bridier. Variations of mean annual minimum temperatures in the French Mediterranean region from 1951 to 2010 . 9th International Conference on Urban Climate jointly with the 12th Symposium on the Urban Environment, Jul 2015, Toulouse, France. ⟨hal-01422892⟩