HORIZONTAL AIR TEMPERATURE CHANGES AS A BASIS FOR THE REGIONAL CLIMATE DIFFERENTIATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Abstract

General natural environmental characteristics of Bosnia and Herzegovina and of some of its regions are defined on a full annual level primarily by the influences of different physical and geographical elements and factors whose modifying influence is defined by highly complex mutual relationships existing within a number of various spatial and temporal scales. This paper presents the basic quantitative and qualitative characteristics of horizontal and altitudinal changes of air temperature as the basis for the spatial thermo-climatic differentiation of Bosnia and Herzegovina into its continental and Mediterranean regions. The conducted analyzes and the interpretation of general physical-conditions determining the spatial position of the aforementioned thermic limit have used a GIS spatial thermic model and the longitudinal and transverse thermic profiles as a basis for defining the horizontal temperature changes.