8oC during the study period compared with the period 1950-1980 | Occasionally, this region is affected by the extraordinary passage of tropical cyclones from the Arabian Sea as in the case of September 1992 |
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Rub Al-Khali is the hottest area in the Arabian Peninsula with an annual average surface temperature of 27-32oC which tends to increase further in both winter and spring seasons | This study shows that the annual average surface air temperature has been risen by about 0 |
The study area is almost devoid of any meteorological stations, therefore this analysis depends primarily on data from four stations surroundings to it for the period 1981-2010.
22The maximum increase in the surface temperature exceeds the average global temperature increase over the past century | |
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