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Increase in severe and extreme soil moisture droughts for Europe under climate change

Gryllakis Emmanouil

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URIhttp://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/948ECF87-7EBA-4784-844E-EF04CCC4E873-
Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.001-
Identifierhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969719300014-
Languageen-
Extent11 pagesen
TitleIncrease in severe and extreme soil moisture droughts for Europe under climate changeen
CreatorGryllakis Emmanouilen
CreatorΓρυλλακης Εμμανουηλel
PublisherElsevieren
Content SummaryDroughts are among the costliest natural disasters. They affect wide regions and large numbers of people worldwide by tampering with water availability and agricultural production. In this research, soil moisture drought trends are assessed for Europe using the Soil Moisture Index (SMI) estimated on Joint UK Land Environment Simulator simulations under two Representative Concentration Pathways, the RCP 2.6 and RCP 6.0 scenarios. Results show that SMI drought conditions are expected to exacerbate in Europe with substantial differences among regions. Eastern Europe and Mediterranean regions are found to be the most affected. Spatially and temporally contiguous regions that exhibit SMI of Severe and Extreme index categories are identified as distinct drought events and are assessed for their characteristics. It is shown that even under strong emissions mitigation, these events are expected to increase in occurrence (22% to 123%), while their characteristics will become more unfavorable. Results indicate increase in their spatial extend (between 23% and 46%) and their duration (between 16% and 48%) depending on the period and the scenario. Additional analysis was performed for the exceptionally wide-area (over 10 6 km 2 ) severe and extreme soil moisture drought events that are expected to drastically increase comparing to the recent past. Projections show that those events are expected to happen between 11 and 28 times more frequently depending on the scenario and the period with a 59% to 246% larger duration. These findings indicate that even applying strong mitigation measures, agricultural drought risk in Europe is expected to become higher than our present experience.en
Type of ItemPeer-Reviewed Journal Publicationen
Type of ItemΔημοσίευση σε Περιοδικό με Κριτέςel
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
Date of Item2020-06-17-
Date of Publication2019-
SubjectAgricultural drought projectionsen
SubjectDrought events identificationen
SubjectJULES land surface modelen
SubjectSevere and extreme soil moisture droughtsen
SubjectSoil moisture droughtsen
SubjectSoil moisture indexen
Bibliographic CitationM.G. Grillakis, "Increase in severe and extreme soil moisture droughts for Europe under climate change," Sci. Total Environ., vol. 660, pp. 1245-1255, Apr. 2019. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.001en

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