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Europe under multi-year droughts: how severe was the 2014-2018 drought period?
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SYSNO ASEP 0542605 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Europe under multi-year droughts: how severe was the 2014-2018 drought period? Author(s) Moravec, V. (CZ)
Markonis, Y. (CZ)
Rakovec, O. (DE)
Svoboda, M. (CZ)
Trnka, Miroslav (UEK-B) RID, ORCID, SAI
Kumar, R. (IN)
Hanel, Martin (UEK-B) ORCID, SAI, RIDNumber of authors 7 Article number 034062 Source Title Environmental Research Letters. - : Institute of Physics Publishing - ISSN 1748-9326
Roč. 16, č. 3 (2021)Number of pages 13 s. Language eng - English Country GB - United Kingdom Keywords soil moisture drought ; natural hazards ; climate extremes ; Europe ; agriculture ; forestry Subject RIV DG - Athmosphere Sciences, Meteorology OECD category Meteorology and atmospheric sciences R&D Projects EF16_019/0000797 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) Research Infrastructure CzeCOS III - 90123 - Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i. Method of publishing Open access Institutional support UEK-B - RVO:86652079 UT WOS 000626870300001 EID SCOPUS 85102981527 DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/abe828 Annotation The recent dry and warm years in Europe are often assessed as extreme in terms of socio-economic and environmental losses. However, the impact of a drought is a function of its duration. This fact needs to be considered in the evaluation of a drought. In this study, we use a hydrological model to analyze the 2018 European drought, an event that significantly affected vegetation. We show that the severity of the soil moisture drought is high in Central Europe and Mediterranean, but it does not reach the levels observed in the first half of the 20th century. Nevertheless, we demonstrate that when the multi-year 2014-2018 period is considered, its soil moisture drought severity is exceptional in a 253 year period, especially for Central Europe. While single-year droughts can be sustained by ecosystems like forests, the repeated stress exposure of such multi-year droughts may have significant impacts on their functioning. This is already evident in some regions of Central Europe, e.g. in the Czech Republic, Germany, and Poland. Workplace Global Change Research Institute Contact Nikola Šviková, svikova.n@czechglobe.cz, Tel.: 511 192 268 Year of Publishing 2022 Electronic address https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abe828
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