TY - JOUR N2 - Temperature and precipitation conditions in the Kaffiøyra region in the summer season (21 July-31 August) for the period from 1975-2014 are described based on data collected during 22 expeditions, in which meteorological measurements were carried out, and complete data series combining both original and reconstructed data. The latter ones were obtained using data from the Ny Ålesund meteorological station, which are strongly correlated with data from the Kaffiøyra region. Seasonal statistics presented for temperature and precipitation based on these two sets of data reveal only slight changes. Summer temperatures in the Kaffiøyra region in the studied period (1975-2014) showed statistically significant strong upward trends, while precipitation totals revealed a downward trend, but not statistically significant. In the studied area, based on 40-years of data, it was demonstrated that the near-surface lapse rates of summer air temperature are slightly lower in glaciated (0.58°C/100 m) than in non-glaciated areas (0.67°C/100 m). Anticyclonic/cyclonic circulation types significantly increase/decrease air temperature on the Waldemar Glacier, while their impact on precipitation is markedly smaller. In summer, close correlations were observed between air temperature and such glacier characteristics as the mass balance and the location of the equilibrium line, while precipitation does not have a great influence on them. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/99629/PDF/10183_Volume37_Issue2_02_paper.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/99629 PY - 2016 IS - No 2 EP - 192 DO - 10.1515/popore-2016-0011 KW - air temperature KW - Arctic KW - Kaffiøyra KW - precipitation KW - Svalbard KW - Waldemar Glacier A1 - Przybylak, Rajmund A1 - Araźny, Andrzej PB - Polish Academy of Sciences PB - Committee on Polar Research VL - vol. 37 DA - 2016 T1 - Warming and drying of tundra and glacier summer climate in NW Spitsbergen from 1975 to 2014 SP - 173 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/99629 T2 - Polish Polar Research ER -