Rankings of extreme and widespread dry and wet events in the Iberian Peninsula between 1901 and 2016

Liberato, Margarida L. R.; Montero, Irene; Gouveia, Célia; Russo, Ana; Ramos, Alexandre M.; Trigo, Ricardo M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-197-2021

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19 Feb 2021

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Rankings of extreme and widespread dry and wet events in the Iberian Peninsula between 1901 and 2016

Margarida L. R. Liberato, Irene Montero, Célia Gouveia, Ana Russo, Alexandre M. Ramos, and Ricardo M. Trigo

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Dry and wet events - Rankings for Iberia Margarida L. R. Liberato, Irene Montero, Célia M. Gouveia, Ana Russo, Alexandre M. Ramos, Ricardo M. Trigo https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13266440.v3

Short summary

Extensive, long-standing dry and wet episodes are frequent climatic extreme events (EEs) in the Iberian Peninsula (IP). A method for ranking regional extremes of persistent, widespread drought and wet events is presented, using different SPEI timescales. Results show that there is no region more prone to EE occurrences in the IP, the most extreme extensive agricultural droughts evolve into hydrological and more persistent extreme droughts, and widespread wet and dry EEs are anti-correlated.