SOME AIR TEMPERATURE CHARACTERISTICS IN THE IAȘI METROPOLITAN AREA

Abstract

The metropolitan area of Iasi was set up in the year 2004, as a result of an agreement between Iaşi county council, Iaşi municipality and 13 surrounding communes. Its surface is of 800 km2 and population of 400.000 inhabitans. The area is situated in the East of Romania, at the contact between the Central Moldavian Plateau and the Moldavian Hilly Plain, between 40 m and 416 m altitude. Have been established the thermal  characteristics through a comparative analysis between plane plain and hilly areas with different slope inclination and exposition, between the forested areas, field, rural settlements and intraurban area