The relationship between climate change and fog phenomenon in southern Iraq

¹ First Karkh Education Directorate Ministry of Education, Baghdad, Iraq
² University of Baghdad/College of Education ibn Rushd for Human Sciences Department of Geography, Baghdad, Iraq

^* Corresponding author: noorwaleed263@gmail.com

Abstract

The weather is thought about one of the most crucial sources of the atmosphere that has actually gone under throughout the final years of the 20th century a lot of adjustments, which resulted in scientists' interested to pick up studies on them and also research to reach its causes n the sensation that one of the problems of times, key changes consequent environment. The importance. Climate change at the global level entailed climate changes in different parts of the world, including the southern Iraq governorates, so alterations in the weather components at the selected weather stations in and around the study area are to be informed while this will indicate the effects of these changes on the fog phenomenon occurrence during the period 1941-2003.The research dealt with the alterations in climate elements in southern Iraq for specific climate cycles. It also identified the effect of shifting weather patterns on the frequency of fog occurrences in the study area.