A five-century tree-ring record from Spain reveals recent intensification of western Mediterranean precipitation extremes
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F25%3A00642133" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/25:00642133 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/2205/2025/cp-21-2205-2025.pdf" target="_blank" >https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/2205/2025/cp-21-2205-2025.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2205-2025" target="_blank" >10.5194/cp-21-2205-2025</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A five-century tree-ring record from Spain reveals recent intensification of western Mediterranean precipitation extremes
Original language description
The Mediterranean basin, a recognized climate change hotspot, faces increasing hydroclimatic pressures, particularly from severe drought and precipitation events. To assess contemporary changes and potentially manage future impacts, it is crucial to understand the long-term context of this variability beyond the relatively short instrumental record. This study utilizes tree-ring records to reconstruct past hydroclimate in the Iberian Range of eastern Spain, a water-sensitive Mediterranean environment. We present a well-replicated tree-ring width chronology from Pinus sylvestris and Pinus nigra trees that calibrates and verifies significantly against cumulative instrumental precipitation over a 320 d period ending in June (r = 0.749, p < 0.01). The resulting 520-year reconstruction reveals substantial multi-centennial variability in precipitation and reveals an increase in the frequency and intensity of hydroclimatic extremes (both wet and dry) during the late 20th and early 21st centuries compared to the longer-term baseline. The reconstruction has a spatial representativeness centred over eastern and central Iberia and covaries with independent historical drought indices derived from rogation ceremony records during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The documented intensification of hydroclimatic extremes is consistent with climate change projections and provides a baseline for evaluating ecosystem resilience and water resource vulnerability.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10509 - Meteorology and atmospheric sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Climate of the Past
ISSN
1814-9324
e-ISSN
1814-9332
Volume of the periodical
21
Issue of the periodical within the volume
11
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
2205-2223
UT code for WoS article
001615537600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105021853111