Contemporary temperature changes at the ground surface and in the troposphere over Vojvodina, Serbia

Abstract

In this paper the near surface and tropospheric temperature trends are compared on the territory of Vojvodina were inves­tigated, on the basis of four sets of data from ground-based and satellite observation, for the period 1979-2005. The trend analysis has shown that there is no amplification of trend of air temperature increase with altitude. On the basis of our calcu­lations, we obtained the results that the air temperature increase in Vojvodina, approximately 1.5 times higher in the near-sur­face layer, compared to lower and middle layers of troposphere. This shows flat or decreasing amplification with altitude, in contrary to some models.