Monitoring of sunshine duration over the Russian territory
The results of the sunshine duration monitoring over the Russian territory included in the section of the Climate Bulletin of RIHMI-WDC are considered. This section consists of the two parts: the first one includes data on anomalies for the expired year, the second includes updated estimates (with regard to these data) of current trends for the change in sunshine duration over the Russian territory. The Bulletin contains space distributions of local estimates and their generalization for physical and geographical regions and federal districts of Russia, as well as time series of their long-term variations. The analysis of sunshine duration data for 2017 was taken as an example to show major characteristics of sunshine duration and forms of their presentation in the Bulletin.