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Precipitation Regime Changes at Four Croatian Meteorological Stations
- Source :
- Atmosphere, Vol 12, Iss 885, p 885 (2021), Atmosphere, Volume 12, Issue 7
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2021.
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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.
- Subjects :
- Mediterranean climate
Atmospheric Science
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
0207 environmental engineering
02 engineering and technology
precipitation
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Continental climate
global warming
01 natural sciences
Meteorology. Climatology
trend analyses
Mann–Kendall test
medicine
Precipitation
020701 environmental engineering
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Croatian
Global warming
Seasonality
medicine.disease
language.human_language
Air temperature
language
Environmental science
Physical geography
QC851-999
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20734433
- Volume :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Atmosphere
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....713bdfabb1a5f48c786ad8f916805f14
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12070885