Project

The Climate Atlas of the Czech Republic project is a part of a wider SF/740/2/03 research programme of the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic. The project's objective is to map a spatial distribution of all common climate characteristics within a standard climatological period 1961–1990 as recommended by the World Meteorological Organization. This period is also continuously connected to a previous climate study, Podnebi CSSR (1969), that covers period of years till 1960.

The first steps to compile the atlas were:

	prepare of data-sets of main climate characteristics (stations selection, spatial data quality control, time series recovery)
	development of climate characteristics spatial analysis methods
	visualization of spatial analysis outputs

The project started in 2003 when the first proposals of an atlas content and work schedule were draughted and the author team led by Dr. Radim Tolasz (CHMI) and Dr. Tatana Mikova (NCP CR) was established.

During the year 2004 the climate data-sets were prepared and later, by agreement with the Ministry of the Environment, the proccesed time period was extended to forty years, 1961–2000. Simultaneously Dr. Vozenilek (Palacky University) created an atlas dummy and proposed a page size of a printed edition as 35 x 27,5 centimetres (35 x 55 centimetres for two pages). The scale 1 : 1 000 000 was selected for main maps and smaller scales 1 : 2 000 000, 1 : 3 000 000 and 1: 5 000 000 were taken for other supplementary maps

In the course of the years 2005 and 2006 the map outputs were finished and completed by texts, plots and pictures and then the maps were proccesed cartographically. The atlas is assembled to be ready for sale and distribution in the first half of 2007.