European dry spell length distributions, years 1951-2000

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 531-551

  Serra, C ^a   Martinez M D ^a   Lana, X ^a   Burgueno A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; THRESHOLD; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 84887319838     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0857-5     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Ahrens CD (1994) Meteorology today. West Publishing Company, St. Paul, 592 pp.
2. Anagnostopoulou C, Maheras P, Karacostas T, Vafiadis M (2003) Spatial and temporal analysis of dry spells in Greece. Theor Appl Climatol 74: 77-91.
3. Beguería S (2005) Uncertainties in partial duration series modelling of extremes related to the choice of the threshold value. J Hydrol 303: 215-230.
4. Benjamin JR, Cornell CA (1970) Probability, statistics and decision for civil engineers. McGraw-Hill, New York.
5. Berger A, Goossens C (1983) Persistence of wet and dry spells at Uccle (Belgium). J Clim 3: 21-24.
6. Burgueño A, Martínez MD, Serra C, Lana X (2010) Statistical distributions of daily rainfall regimes in Europe along the period 1951-2000. Theor Appl Climatol 102: 213-226.
7. Cindrić K, Pasarić Z, Gajić-Čapka M (2010) Spatial and temporal analysis of dry spells in Croatia. Theor Appl Climatol 102: 171-184.
8. Coles S (2001) An introduction to statistical modelling of extreme events. Springer series in statistics, Springer, Germany.
9. Conesa C, Martín-Vide J (1993) Analyse par la chaîne de Markov de la sécheresse dans le sud-est de l'Espagne. Sécheresse 4(2): 123-129.
10. Davis RE, Kalkstein LS (1990) Development of an automatic spatial synoptic climatological classification. Int J Climatol 10: 769-794.
11. Dobi-Wantuck I, Mika J, Szeidl L (2000) Modelling wet and dry spells with mixture distributions. Met Atmos Phys 73: 245-256.
12. Douguédroit A (1980) La sécheresse estivale dans la région Provence - Alpes - Côtes d'Azur. Méditerranée 2-3: 13-22.
13. Douguédroit A (1987) The variation of dry spells in Marseilles from 1865 to 1984. J Climatol 7: 541-551.
14. Douguédroit, A. (1991) Drought in the French Mediterranean area (1864-1990). In: Fifth conference on climate variations (14-18 October 1991, Colorado, USA), 181-184.
15. Essenwanger OM (2001) Classification of climates, world survey of climatology 1c, general climatology. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 102 pp.
16. Galloy E, Martin S, Le Breton A (1982) Analyse de séquences de jours secs consécutifs. Application à 31 postes du réseau météorologique français. La Météorologie 28: 5-24.
17. Giorgi F, Lionello P (2008) Climate change projections for the Mediterranean region. Glob Planet Chang 63: 90-104.
18. Gómez Navarro, M. (1996) Calcul par les chaînes de Markov des probabilités de durée des séquences sèches et pluvieuses à l'Espagne. Publications de l'Association Internationale de Climatologie (AIC) no. 9, 203-209.
19. Helldén U, Tottrup C (2008) Regional desertification: a global synthesis. Glob Planet Chang 64: 169-176.
20. Hertig E, Jacobeit J (2008) Assessments of Mediterranean precipitation changes for the 21st century using statistical downscaling techniques. Int J Climatol 28: 1025-1045.
21. Hosking JRM, Wallis JR (1997) Regional frequency analysis. An approach based on L-moments. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
22. IPCC (2007) In: Solomon S, Qin D, Manning M, Chen Z, Marquis M, Averyt KB, Tignor M, Miller HL (eds) Climate change 2007: the physical science basis, Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, UK, p 996.
23. Kalkstein LS, Tan G, Skindlov JA (1987) An evaluation of three clustering procedures for use in synoptic climatological classification. J Clim Appl Meteorol 26: 717-730.
24. Klein Tank AMG, Wijngaard JB, Können GP, Böhm R, Demarée G, Gocheva A, Mileta M, Pashiardis S, Hejkrlik L, Kern-Hansen C, Heino R, Bessemoulin P, Müller-Westermeier G, Tzanakou M, Szalai S, Pálsdóttir T, Fitzgerald D, Rubin S, Capaldo M, Maugeri M, Leitass A, Bukantis A, Aberfeld R, van Engelen AFV, Forland E, Mietus M, Coelho F, Mares C, Razuvaev V, Nieplova E, Cegnar T, Antonio López J, Dahlström B, Moberg A, Kirchhofer W, Ceylan A, Pachaliuk O, Alexander LV, Petrovic P (2002) Daily dataset of 20th century surface air temperature and precipitation series for the European Climate Assessment. Int J Climatol 22: 1441-1453.
25. Klok EJ, Klein Tank AMG (2009) Updated and extended European dataset of daily climate observations. Int J Climatol 29: 1182-1191.
26. Kottek M, Grieser J, Beck C, Rudolf B, Rubel F (2006) World map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated. Meteorol Z 15: 259-263. doi: 10. 1127/0941-2948/2006/0130.
27. Kundzewicz Z, Radziejewski M, Pińskwar I (2006) Precipitation extremes in the changing climate of Europe. Clim Res 31: 51-58.
28. Lana X, Fernández Mills G (1994) Minimum sample size for synoptic weather type classification: application to winter period data recorded on the Catalan coast (NE Spain). Int J Climatol 14: 1051-1060.
29. Lana X, Burgueño A (1998a) Daily dry-wet behaviour in Catalonia (NE Spain) from the viewpoint of first and second order Markov chains. Int J Climatol 18: 793-815.
30. Lana X, Burgueño A (1998b) Probabilities of repeated long dry episodes based on the Poisson distribution. An example for Catalonia (NE Spain) Theor. Appl Climatol 60: 111-120.
31. Lana X, Serra C, Burgueño A (2001) Patterns of monthly rainfall shortage and excess in terms of the standardised precipitation index for Catalonia (NE Spain). Int J Climatol 21: 1669-1691.
32. Lana X, Burgueño A, Martínez MD, Serra C (2006) Statistical distributions and sampling strategies for the analysis of extreme dry spells in Catalonia (NE Spain). J Hydrol 324: 94-114.
33. Lana X, Martínez MD, Burgueño A, Serra C (2008a) Return period maps of dry spells for Catalonia (northeastern Spain) based on the Weibull distribution. Hydrol Sci J 53(1): 48-64.
34. Lana X, Martínez MD, Burgueño A, Serra C, Martín-Vide J, Gomez L (2008b) Spatial and temporal patterns of dry spell lengths in the Iberian Peninsula for the second half of the twentieth century. Theor Appl Climatol 91: 99-116.
35. Lehner B, Dölh P, Alcamo J, Henrichs T, Kaspar F (2006) Estimating the impact of global change on flood and drought risks in Europe: a continental integrated analysis. Clim Chang 75: 273-299.
36. Lemeshko BY, Postokalov SN (2001) Application of the non parametric goodness-of-fit test in testing composite hypothesis. Optoelectron Instrum Data Process 2: 76-88.
37. Martín-Vide J, Gómez L (1999) Regionalization of peninsular Spain based on the length of dry spells. Int J Climatol 19: 537-555.
38. Perzyna G (1994) Spatial and temporal characteristics of maximum dry spells in Southern Norway. Int J Climatol 14: 895-909.
39. Serra C, Burgueño A, Martínez MD, Lana X (2006) Trends in dry spells across Catalonia (NE Spain) during the second half of the 20th century. Theor Appl Climatol 85: 165-183.
40. Tallaksen LM, Madesn H, Hisdal H (2004) Frequency analysis. In: Hydrological drought. processes and estimation methods for streamflow and groundwater. In: Tallaksen LM, van Lanen HAJ (eds) Developments in Water Science, 48th edn. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
41. Vicente-Serrano SM, Beguería S (2003) Estimating extreme dry-spell risk in the middle Ebro Valley (northeastern Spain): a comparative analysis of partial duration series with a Pareto distribution and annual maxima series with a Gumbel distribution. Int J Climatol 23: 1103-1118.
42. Vicente-Serrano SM (2006a) Spatial and temporal analysis of droughts in the Iberian Peninsula (1910-2000). Hydrol Sci J 51(1): 83-97.
43. Vicente-Serrano SM (2006b) Differences in spatial patterns of drought on different time scales: an analysis of the Iberian Peninsula. Water Resour Manag 20: 37-60.
44. Weibull W (1951) A statistical distribution function of wide applicability. J Appl Mech 18: 293-297.
45. Wijngaard JB, Klein Tank AMG, Konnen GP (2003) Homogeneity of 20th century European daily temperature and precipitation series. Int J Climatol 23: 679-692.