Bayankina T. Characteristics of the climate and of interannual variability of cloudiness and cyclones in the Mediterranean region on the basis of satellite data/

TThesis for Candidate degree in Geographical Sciences, specialized field 11.00.09 - meteorology, climatology, agricultural meteorology. -Marine Hydrophysical institute of NAN of Ukraine, Sevastopol, 2013. Thesis work is dedicated to study of the spatial distribution of typical values of cloudiness and cyclones parameters, their interannual anomalies in the Mediterranean region (MR) associated with North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). The basis of study is the data sets archive created in present work on the pa-rameters of cloudiness (1984-2009) and cyclones (1996-2009) based on of satellite images. As a results of MR regionalization six climatic regions (CR) were selected. On the basis of statistical analysis of cloudiness and cyclones parameters over MR and its climatic regions were estimated frequency of cloudiness gradations, types of clouds, number of cyclones and their lifetime in the cloudiness field for each month, season and a year. Using methods of composite and correlation analysis the influence of North Atlantic interannual processes on cloudiness and cyclones parameters are during negative and positive NAO phases.