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DOI 10.1029/2019GL082783
Title (Primary) A 250‐year European drought inventory derived from ensemble hydrologic modeling
Author Moravec, V.; Markonis, Y.; Rakovec, O. ORCID logo ; Kumar, R. ORCID logo ; Hanel, M.
Source Titel Geophysical Research Letters
Year 2019
Department CHS
Volume 46
Issue 11
Page From 5909
Page To 5917
Language englisch
Data and Software links https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2594777
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Keywords drought; hydrological ensemble; natural hazards; drought types; climate extremes; Europe
Abstract We present a 250‐year (1766–2015) inventory of European meteorological, hydrological, and agricultural droughts derived from ensemble simulations of the mesoscale Hydrological Model (mHM). The inventory of droughts takes into account an ensemble of 100 simulations from the hydrological model, allowing for assessment of how different meteorological forcing and model parameterizations affect a drought ranking. For the most extreme droughts, the variability in the ranking of drought events is low, while for the years with moderate precipitation deficits, the variability increases. Despite the underlying uncertainties, our drought inventory shows increased recurrence of soil moisture droughts in the Mediterranean and declining spatial extent of hydrological drought in Central Europe over the last three decades.
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Moravec, V., Markonis, Y., Rakovec, O., Kumar, R., Hanel, M. (2019):
A 250‐year European drought inventory derived from ensemble hydrologic modeling
Geophys. Res. Lett. 46 (11), 5909 - 5917 10.1029/2019GL082783