REGIONAL CLIMATIC CHANGES IN AZERBAIJAN AND ITS IMPACT ON HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS

Currently, there are two important natural problems in the world, one of which is global and local climate change, and the other is the water problem, i.e. meeting the freshwater needs of a growing world population. Over the past few decades, the frequency and duration of dangerous hydrometeorological phenomena and natural disasters caused by climate change have been steadily increasing in various regions of the planet. This makes inevitable damage to the economy, both to individual states and to the whole world as a whole. In the article, on the basis of scientific - historical and real hydrometeorological observational data, a chronological scientific analysis of climate changes around the world is carried out and the current impact of regional climate changes on the territory of Azerbaijan is studied. For this purpose, using long-term data from numerous hydrometeorological observation points, statistical and comparative methods were used to assess regional climate changes and river flow in the territory of Azerbaijan in various altitude intervals and for individual natural territorial units.