Creation of High-Resolution Climatic Grid Datasets for the Territory of Georgia

E. Sh. Elizbarashvili, M. R. Tatishvili, M. E. Elizbarashvili, Sh. E. Elizbarashvili, R. Sh. Meskhia, V. E. Gorgisheli, and K. A. Lashauri

Created are the grid datasets of monthly mean and annual mean temperature as well of monthly, seasonal, and annual values of the total precipitation with the resolution of 25 km for the period of 1936–2011. The obtained datasets characterize the real picture of the spatial distribution of temperature and precipitation on the territory of Georgia; therefore, they are used for working out geoinformative maps of temperature and precipitation variations. Revealed are the areas and centers with different intensity of warming and cooling. It is found that the annual temperature and total annual precipitation averaged for the territory do not vary considerably under conditions of the global warming.