Abstract
Analysis of climate continentality is a powerful tool for studying and forecasting weather. Considering the continentality index enables determining current climate characteristics and predicting potential changes. This study aims to assess climate change in Russia’s North-East by analysing the continentality index as a complex integral indicator of these changes applicable to vast territories. Although there are many methods for assessing climate continentality, there is no universal methodology. It is proposed in this contribution to employ two of the existing techniques. The first focuses on the area’s annual temperature amplitude and geographic latitude. The second involves a calculation of the index based on average January and July temperatures, the sum of seasonal precipitation and the area’s latitude. An analysis of the index values of the base and calculation periods leads one to conclude that these values do not change significantly towards either weaker or stronger continentality across the study area.
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