TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pena-Angulo, D.
A1  - Nadal-Romero, E.
A1  - Gonzalez-Hidalgo, J. C.
A1  - Albaladejo, J.
A1  - Andreu, V
A1  - Bagarello, V
A1  - Barhi, H.
A1  - Batalla, R. J.
A1  - Bernal, S.
A1  - Bienes, R.
A1  - Campo, J.
A1  - Campo-Bescos, M. A.
A1  - Canatario-Duarte, A.
A1  - Canton, Y.
A1  - Casali, J.
A1  - Castillo, V
A1  - Cerda, Artemi
A1  - Cheggour, A.
A1  - Cid, Patricio
A1  - Cortesi, N.
A1  - Desir, G.
A1  - Diaz-Pereira, E.
A1  - Espigares, T.
A1  - Estrany, Joan
A1  - Fernandez-Raga, M.
A1  - Ferreira, Carla S. S.
A1  - Ferro, Vito
A1  - Gallart, Francesc
A1  - Gimenez, R.
A1  - Gimeno, E.
A1  - Gomez, J. A.
A1  - Gomez-Gutierrez, A.
A1  - Gomez-Macpherson, H.
A1  - Gonzalez-Pelayo, O.
A1  - Hueso-Gonzalez, P.
A1  - Kairis, O.
A1  - Karatzas, G. P.
A1  - Klotz, S.
A1  - Kosmas, C.
A1  - Lana-Renault, Noemi
A1  - Lasanta, T.
A1  - Latron, J.
A1  - Lazaro, R.
A1  - Le Bissonnais, Y.
A1  - Le Bouteiller, C.
A1  - Licciardello, F.
A1  - Lopez-Tarazon, José Andrés
A1  - Lucia, A.
A1  - Marin, C.
A1  - Marques, M. J.
A1  - Martinez-Fernandez, J.
A1  - Martinez-Mena, M.
A1  - Martinez-Murillo, J. F.
A1  - Mateos, L.
A1  - Mathys, N.
A1  - Merino-Martin, L.
A1  - Moreno-de las Heras, M.
A1  - Moustakas, N.
A1  - Nicolau, J. M.
A1  - Novara, A.
A1  - Pampalone, V
A1  - Raclot, D.
A1  - Rodriguez-Blanco, M. L.
A1  - Rodrigo-Comino, Jesús
A1  - Romero-Diaz, A.
A1  - Roose, E.
A1  - Rubio, J. L.
A1  - Ruiz-Sinoga, J. D.
A1  - Schnabel, S.
A1  - Senciales-Gonzalez, J. M.
A1  - Simonneaux, V
A1  - Sole-Benet, A.
A1  - Taguas, E.
A1  - Taboada-Castro, M. M.
A1  - Taboada-Castro, M. T.
A1  - Todisco, Francesca
A1  - Ubeda, X.
A1  - Varouchakis, E. A.
A1  - Vericat, Damia
A1  - Wittenberg, L.
A1  - Zabaleta, A.
A1  - Zorn, M.
T1  - Spatial variability of the relationships of runoff and sediment yield with weather types throughout the Mediterranean basin
JF  - Journal of hydrology
N2  - Soil degradation by water is a serious environmental problem worldwide, with specific climatic factors being the major causes. We investigated the relationships between synoptic atmospheric patterns (i.e. weather types, WTs) and runoff, erosion and sediment yield throughout the Mediterranean basin by analyzing a large database of natural rainfall events at 68 research sites in 9 countries. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to identify spatial relationships of the different WTs including three hydro-sedimentary variables: rainfall, runoff, and sediment yield (SY, used to refer to both soil erosion measured at plot scale and sediment yield registered at catchment scale). The results indicated 4 spatial classes of rainfall and runoff: (a) northern sites dependent on North (N) and North West (NW) flows; (b) eastern sites dependent on E and NE flows; (c) southern sites dependent on S and SE flows; and, finally, (d) western sites dependent on W and SW flows. Conversely, three spatial classes are identified for SY characterized by: (a) N and NE flows in northern sites (b) E flows in eastern sites, and (c) W and SW flows in western sites. Most of the rainfall, runoff and SY occurred during a small number of daily events, and just a few WTs accounted for large percentages of the total. Our results confirm that characterization by WT improves understanding of the general conditions under which runoff and SY occur, and provides useful information for understanding the spatial variability of runoff, and SY throughout the Mediterranean basin. The approach used here could be useful to aid of the design of regional water management and soil conservation measures.
KW  - Synoptic weather types
KW  - Erosion
KW  - Sediment yield
KW  - Runoff
KW  - Mediterranean basin
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.01.059
SN  - 0022-1694
SN  - 1879-2707
VL  - 571
SP  - 390
EP  - 405
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Vogel, Johannes
A1  - Paton, Eva
A1  - Aich, Valentin
A1  - Bronstert, Axel
T1  - Increasing compound warm spells and droughts in the Mediterranean Basin
JF  - Weather and climate extremes
N2  - The co-occurrence of warm spells and droughts can lead to detrimental socio-economic and ecological impacts, largely surpassing the impacts of either warm spells or droughts alone. We quantify changes in the number of compound warm spells and droughts from 1979 to 2018 in the Mediterranean Basin using the ERA5 data set. We analyse two types of compound events: 1) warm season compound events, which are extreme in absolute terms in the warm season from May to October and 2) year-round deseasonalised compound events, which are extreme in relative terms respective to the time of the year. The number of compound events increases significantly and especially warm spells are increasing strongly – with an annual growth rates of 3.9 (3.5) % for warm season (deseasonalised) compound events and 4.6 (4.4) % for warm spells –, whereas for droughts the change is more ambiguous depending on the applied definition. Therefore, the rise in the number of compound events is primarily driven by temperature changes and not the lack of precipitation. The months July and August show the highest increases in warm season compound events, whereas the highest increases of deseasonalised compound events occur in spring and early summer. This increase in deseasonalised compound events can potentially have a significant impact on the functioning of Mediterranean ecosystems as this is the peak phase of ecosystem productivity and a vital phenophase.
KW  - Compound events
KW  - Warm spells
KW  - Droughts
KW  - Mediterranean basin
KW  - Extreme events
KW  - Climate change
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2021.100312
SN  - 2212-0947
VL  - 32
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -