Cave temperatures and global climatic change

The physical processes that establish the cave temperature are briefly discussed, showing that cave temperature is generally strictly connected with the external climate. The Global Climatic changes can then influence also the underground climate. It is shown that the mountain thermal inertia causes a delay between the two climates and then a thermal unbalance between the cave and the atmosphere. As a consequence there is a net energy flux from the atmosphere to the mountain, larger than the geothermal one, which is deposited mainly in the epidermal parts of caves.

• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  International Journal of Speleology

• Publication date

  Unknown publication date

• Fields of study

  Geology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.5038/1827-806X.33.1.10
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