Thermal Monitoring: Identification Tool of Natural Disasters Risks Response to Local Climatic Effects

摘要

Local natural disasters risks can be connected with local climatic effects (LCE). Their origin reflects coupling of active surface shapes and cover. Thermal variability of different active surfaces influences local climate as a whole. The conditioning of a landscape as to long-term LCE action as to frequently occurred LCE involves reaction of an environment that exhibits as potential environmental disasters risks.Primary factors of LCE origin are natural, meteorological and anthropogenic. Numerous groups of LCE related to the active surface temperature and the georelief morphography (wind speed, lower/higher daily/annual temperature variability, fogs frequency, katabatic/anabatic wind flow, cold air lakes, slope thermal belt etc). Frequently occurred thermal and/or thermodynamic originated LCE constitute potential risks of environmental consequences.Thermal monitoring gives exact information about a spatio-temporal variability of a non-uniform active surface. The knowledge of a local geographical condition and a surface temperature regime allows to identify places with thermal and/or thermodynamic related LCE and consequently identifies areas with natural disaster risks on the local scale.