القارية في مناخ محافظة الأنبار

Abstract EN

Anbar Governorate is considered part of the Arabian Peninsula, Its surface is crispy, characterised by a desert climate, low rainfall and a large variation in temperature between day and night.

Summer temperatures rise to 42 degrees Celsius, whilst in the winter average lows reach 9 degrees Celsius.

The northwesterly and southwesterly winds are sometimes to a maximum speed of 21 m/s.

Average rainfall in winter between (50 -200) mm.

The research is concerned with examining the continental status of climate of Al Anbar province depending on Borisov equation.

The research included eight climate stations distributed on the area of investigation for the period 2001-2011.

It has been found that the popular climate in Al Anbar province is a kind of continental and the degrees of continental in this province varies from the severe to the very severe continental, due to poor access of marine impacts, especially to the Mediterranean Sea, and the poverty of the study area by natural vegetation.