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Flash droughts in Central Europe and their circulation drivers

ŘEHOŘ, Jan, Rudolf BRÁZDIL, Miroslav TRNKA a Jan BALEK

Základní údaje

Originální název

Flash droughts in Central Europe and their circulation drivers

Autoři

ŘEHOŘ, Jan (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí), Rudolf BRÁZDIL (203 Česká republika, domácí), Miroslav TRNKA (203 Česká republika) a Jan BALEK

Vydání

Climate Dynamics, Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2024, 0930-7575

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10500 1.5. Earth and related environmental sciences

Stát vydavatele

Německo

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 4.600 v roce 2022

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

UT WoS

001072227100001

Klíčová slova anglicky

Soil moisture; Flash drought; Spatiotemporal variability; Atmospheric circulation; Central Europe

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 6. 3. 2024 12:31, Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

Flash droughts, defined as events with unusually rapid onset and intensification, are emerging into the spotlight as dangerous subseasonal climatic phenomena capable of causing substantial socioenvironmental impacts. However, research on their spatiotemporal variability and major drivers in Central Europe has been limited thus far. This study used gridded soil moisture data from the SoilClim model for the region consisting of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and northern part of Austria in the 1961–2021 period. Established methods of flash drought detection were implemented and adapted to conduct their comprehensive spatiotemporal analysis. The gridded flash drought results were divided into four clusters using the Ward’s hierarchical agglomerative method. Individual flash drought episodes were delimited for each cluster, divided into three phases (onset, course, end) and investigated separately in terms of drivers, represented by three meteorological variables (precipitation, actual evapotranspiration, maximum temperature) and atmospheric circulation types based on the objective classification (derived from flow strength, direction and vorticity). The frequency of flash droughts slightly decreased in the winter half-year and slightly increased in the summer half-year, with substantial amplification in the April–June season. The increase was slower than in the case of seasonal droughts, being driven by the longer-term accumulation of water deficit. Circulation drivers exhibited much stronger and more direct influence in the summer half-year, particularly causing the onset of flash drought episodes during the predominance of anticyclonic types and absence of cyclonic types, while the course of flash drought episodes was also connected to increased temperatures and often connected to warm airflow.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1323/2022, interní kód MU
Název: Environmentální a socioekonomické změny v geografickém výzkumu
Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Environmentální a socioekonomické změny v geografickém výzkumu