@ARTICLE{Valiukas_Donatas_Methodology_2015, author={Valiukas, Donatas and Galvonaitė, Audronė and Česnulevičius, Algimantas}, volume={vol. 64}, number={No 1}, journal={Geodesy and Cartography}, howpublished={online}, year={2015}, publisher={Commitee on Geodesy PAS}, abstract={Climate atlases summarize large sets of quantitative and qualitative data and are results of complex analytical cartographic work. These special geographical publications summarize long term meteorological observations, provide maps and figures which characterise different climate elements. Visual information is supplemented with explanatory texts. A lot of information on short and long term changes of climate elements were provided in published Lithuanian atlases (Atlas of Lithuanian SDR, 1981; Climate Atlas of Lithuania, 2013), as well as in prepared but unpublished Lithuanian Atlas (1989) and in upcoming new national atlas publications (National Atlas of Lithuania. 1 st part, 2014). Climate atlases has to be constantly updated to be relevant and to describe current climate conditions. Comprehensive indicators of Lithuanian climate are provided in different cartographic publications. Different time periods, various data sets and diverse cartographic data analysis tools and visualisation methods were used in these different publications.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Methodology of Lithuanian climate atlas mapping}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/98369/PDF/art8_Valiukas_inni.pdf}, doi={10.1515/geocart-2015-0008}, keywords={Climate atlas, Climate normal, ArcGIS}, }