The climatic diagram map of High Asia: purpose and concepts

A new map containing climatic diagrams of high Asia and its surrounding lowlands is presented . Its main focus is to provide a database for climatic-ecological investigations.The work is based on the approach of Walter and Lieth(1960-1967) . It also includes a great number of newly available data sets and and its completed by modelled time series.Critical aspects of data quality and climatic conditions are discussed and methodical approaches for futurre work are mentioned. A detailed station based analysis will be published as climatic diagram handbook.