Study of Temperature Evolution’s Trend on the Black Sea Shore, at Constanta

Abstract

It is widely recognized that temperature’s changes have an important impact on the environment, in particular on sea waters, plants, animals and human life. This article presents the results of the study of the temperature’s evolution trend in Constanta, the main city and harbour on the Romanian Black Sea shore. Have been used the maximum and minimum daily temperatures, collected from the European Climate Assessment & Dataset project website. The data span over 58 years, from 1961 to 2018, period long enough to consider the results significant. Change points detection is done for annual and seasonal data, followed by testing the trend existence for maximum and minimum annual and seasonal series. The results proved the existence of increasing trend for all the temperature series, fact that confirms the global warming effect in this part of the world.