Bioclimatic resources of recreational natural resource management in the Altai-Sayan Mountain Country in the summer period

Mountain recreational use of natural resources for active recreation, restore the health and strength of the people is actively developing. Physical and geographical factors of the climate of mountain regions, such as absolute altitude and landforms, create special climatic conditions that affect human activity. The Altai-Sayan mountain country is promising for the development of recreational nature management. Bioclimatic characteristics in mountain areas are poorly studied. There are few meteorological stations in the mountains. The repeatability (%) of the moment weather classes (КПМ) is used to assess the impact of climate on the thermal state of a person in the mountains in the summer months. Six weather classes (hot and dry, warm, comfortable, moderately cold, cold, sharply cold) are identified for the summer period in the mountains. Significant correlation dependences of weather class repeatability depending on the absolute altitude of the terrain in the mountains were obtained. Separate weather classes for practical use were combined into integral weather groups: optimal (ОП), satisfactory (УП), unsatisfactory (НУП) and extremely unsatisfactory (КНУП). The number of days with favorable weather (БП) and the number of days with unfavorable weather (НБП) was calculated. The average number of days with precipitation was calculated toо. Complex bioclimatic indicators allow us to assess the impact of mountain climates on the thermal state of a person, recreational conditions, as well as on the mode of work and recreation of the population. Indirect methods with using absolute elevation have been applied to characterize the climate in mountainous areas when meteorological stations are located far from each other. A high correlation between the repeatability of weather classes and the absolute altitude was revealed. There is a close significant correlation between the number of days with different weather groups and the absolute altitude of the area. This allows you to use the dependence of weather groups on the altitude to analyze their patterns in mountainous areas. These characteristics can be used to assess climate comfort and effective recreational use of natural resources. The average long-term repeatability of weather classes and integral groups of favorable and unfavorable weather up to high altitude levels is demonstrated in the article. Modern global climate changes tend to increase the comfort of bioclimatic characteristics. Changes in the number of days with favorable weather during the summer period are not statistically significant yet. Effective use of climate resources in the mountainous regions of Siberia for recreational nature management should be based on modern complex bioclimatic indicators that take into account climate changes with altitude.

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