Impact of Climate Change

Using SPECIFIC examples from your country, list the impacts that Climate Change will/ is having on it. You should organize your information based on the impact on the 4 spheres of the Environments. You must
include AT least 4 pictures on your assignment. 1 mark will be given for every example up to a total of 30.

















Algeria Impact of Climate Change

Climate change is having an ever greater impact on Algeria. This is particularly true of the northern part of the country. The average temperature and the number of extreme weather events such as droughts, heavy rainfall and storms are rising. Compounded by highly variable rainfall and a rise in
the sea level. There is a greater risks of loss of areas used for human settlement and agriculture.










Lithosphere-  Droughts are more common and longer.






Hydrosphere- The decrease of water resources declining agricultural production areas and industries are concentrated along a narrow strip of the northern coastline.





Biosphere- Rainfall is fairly abundant along the coastal part of the tell, ranging from forty to sixty-seven centimeters annually, the amount of precipitation increasing from west to east.




Atmosphere-Most of the population and the major agricultural production areas and industries are concentrated along a narrow strip of the northern coastline.
















Northern Algeria is in the temperate zone and its a mild Mediterranean climate. It lies within approximately the same latitudes as southern California and has somewhat similar climate conditions. Its broken topography, however, provides sharp local contrasts in both prevailing temperatures and incidence of rainfall. Year to year variations in climatic conditions are also common.


Temperatures in summer average between 21-24 C and in winter it drops to 10-12 C. Winters are not cold, but the humidity is high and houses are seldom adequately heated. In eastern Algeria the average temperatures are somewhat lower and on the steppes of the high plateaus winter temperatures hover only a few degrees above freezing.












In Algeria Sahara lies across the Tropic of Cancer in the torrid zone, but even in winter, midday desert temperatures can be very hot. And after sunset the dry air permit rapid loss of heat and the nights are cool to chilly which cause enormous daily ranges in temperature.Precipitation is heaviest in the northern part of eastern Algeria, where it reaches as much as 100 centimeters in some years. Farther inland the rainfall is less plentiful. Prevailing winds that are easterly and north-easterly in summer change to westerly and northerly in winter and carry with them a general increase in precipitation from September to December, a decrease in the late winter and spring months, and a near absence of rainfall during the summer months.