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Precipitation Regime Changes at Four Croatian Meteorological Stations

Authors :
Ognjen Bonacci
Adrijana Vrsalović
Ivo Andrić
Duje Bonacci
Source :
Atmosphere, Vol 12, Iss 885, p 885 (2021), Atmosphere, Volume 12, Issue 7
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
MDPI AG, 2021.

Abstract

The article analyses the values of daily, monthly and annual precipitation measured during the period 1948–2019 at the following four stations: (1) Split, (2) Hvar, (3) Lastovo and (4) Zagreb. The first three stations are located in a Mediterranean climate, while the station in Zagreb is located in a continental climate. The aim of the performed analyses is to detect non-stationarity (trends, jumps, and seasonality) in the precipitation regime at three-time scales (day, month, and year) over the period of the last 72 years (1948–2020). Numerous previous analyses at all four stations showed statistically significant increases in air temperature, which were particularly amplified in the late 1980s by the effect of global warming. Expressed as a percentage of the total annual precipitation at all four analysed locations, the presence of an increasing trend was calculated. The analyses carried out in this work showed that there was a redistribution of precipitation during the year, a decrease in the number of days with precipitation and an intensification of precipitation in both climatic regions. Over the past 73 years, the number of days with precipitation per year has slowly decreased. The number of days with intense precipitation, P ≥ 32.0 mm, has become more frequent.

Details

ISSN :
20734433
Volume :
12
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Atmosphere
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....713bdfabb1a5f48c786ad8f916805f14
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12070885