The 2018-2020 Multi-Year Drought Sets a New Benchmark in Europe
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00020711%3A_____%2F22%3A10154890" target="_blank" >RIV/00020711:_____/22:10154890 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41330/22:91172
Result on the web
<a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2021EF002394" target="_blank" >https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2021EF002394</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002394" target="_blank" >10.1029/2021EF002394</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The 2018-2020 Multi-Year Drought Sets a New Benchmark in Europe
Original language description
During the period 2018-2020, Europe experienced a series of hot and dry weather conditions with significant socioeconomic and environmental consequences. Yet, the extremity of these multi-year dry conditions is not recognized. Here, we provide a comprehensive spatio-temporal assessment of the drought hazard over Europe by benchmarking past exceptional events during the period from 1766 to 2020. We identified the 2018-2020 drought event as a new benchmark having an unprecedented intensity that persisted for more than 2 years, exhibiting a mean areal coverage of 35.6% and an average duration of 12.2 months. What makes this event truly exceptional compared with past events is its near-surface air temperature anomaly reaching +2.8 K, which constitutes a further evidence that the ongoing global warming is exacerbating present drought events. Furthermore, future events based on climate model simulations Coupled Model Intercomparison Project v5 suggest that Europe should be prepared for events of comparable intensity as the 2018-2020 event but with durations longer than any of those experienced in the last 250 years. Our study thus emphasizes the urgent need for adaption and mitigation strategies to cope with such multi-year drought events across Europe.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10510 - Climatic research
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GC19-24089J" target="_blank" >GC19-24089J: XEROS: eXtreme EuRopean drOughtS - Multimodel synthesis of past, present and future events</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Earths Future
ISSN
2328-4277
e-ISSN
2328-4277
Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
1-11
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85127327320