دورية أكاديمية

Amplified potential for vegetation stress under climate-change-induced intensifying compound extreme events in the Greater Mediterranean Region

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Amplified potential for vegetation stress under climate-change-induced intensifying compound extreme events in the Greater Mediterranean Region
المؤلفون: P. Olschewski, M. D. B. Dieng, H. Moutahir, B. Böker, E. Haas, H. Kunstmann, P. Laux
المصدر: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Vol 24, Pp 1099-1134 (2024)
بيانات النشر: Copernicus Publications, 2024.
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: LCC:Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
LCC:Geography. Anthropology. Recreation
LCC:Environmental sciences
LCC:Geology
مصطلحات موضوعية: Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering, TD1-1066, Geography. Anthropology. Recreation, Environmental sciences, GE1-350, Geology, QE1-996.5
الوصف: The Mediterranean Basin is one of the regions most affected by climate change, which poses significant challenges to agricultural efficiency and food security. While rising temperatures and decreasing precipitation levels already impose great risks, the effects of compound extreme events (CEEs) can be significantly more severe and amplify the risk. It is therefore of high importance to assess these risks under climate change on a regional level to implement efficient adaption strategies. This study focuses on false-spring events (FSEs), which impose a high risk of crop losses during the beginning of the vegetation growing period, as well as heat–drought compound events (HDCEs) in summer, for a high-impact future scenario (Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5). The results for 2070–2099 are compared to 1970–1999. In addition, deviations of the near-surface atmospheric state under FSEs and HDCEs are investigated to improve the predictability of these events. We apply a multivariate, trend-conserving bias correction method (MBCn) accounting for temporal coherency between the inspected variables derived from the European branch of the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (EURO-CORDEX). This method proves to be a suitable choice for the assessment of percentile-threshold-based CEEs. The results show a potential increase in frequency of FSEs for large portions of the study domain, especially impacting later stages of the warming period, caused by disproportionate changes in the behavior of warm phases and frost events. Frost events causing FSEs predominantly occur under high-pressure conditions and northerly to easterly wind flow. HDCEs are projected to significantly increase in frequency, intensity, and duration, mostly driven by dry, continental air masses. This intensification is several times higher than that of the univariate components. This study improves our understanding of the unfolding of climate change in the Mediterranean and shows the need for further, locally refined investigations and adaptation strategies.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1561-8633
1684-9981
Relation: https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/24/1099/2024/nhess-24-1099-2024.pdf; https://doaj.org/toc/1561-8633; https://doaj.org/toc/1684-9981
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-24-1099-2024
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/8073c525e95d4a51aef624f8dba728b9
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.8073c525e95d4a51aef624f8dba728b9
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:15618633
16849981
DOI:10.5194/nhess-24-1099-2024