Changes and trends observed in the air temperature over Cuba and its closest geographical surroundings
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In the context of climate change, it is necessary to maintain systematic monitoring of the variations and changes that are occurring in the climate. In the particular case of temperature, the monitoring and analysis of its behavior, in the context of the significant tendencies of the same to a progressive increase of a global character, constitutes a task of high value, given the harmful processes that consequently take place. Its examination must be considered in the context of the more general background characteristics, which by their nature are related to it through existing processes in the different spatial and temporal scales that affect the climate and that lead to the variations and tendencies that have been occurring in the area and especially to its impact on the country. The temperature analysis presented below includes, in addition to the data on average surface temperatures in the country, those from nearby land and ocean areas in the Greater Caribbean, as well as those obtained from the vertical tropospheric structure over the area. The main results indicate that the average surface air temperature in Cuba and its surroundings continues to increase, with the last 5-year period showing the greatest increase, which is why our climate is becoming warmer.
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