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Trends of change in precipitation and in drought susceptibility as assessed by the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) in northeast Portugal

Tendências de mudança na precipitação e na susceptibilidade à seca avaliada pelo Índice de Precipitação Normalizada (SPI) no nordeste de Portugal
Authors: Royer, Ana Caroline; Figueiredo, Tomás de; Fonseca, Felícia; Schutz, Fabiana Costa de Araújo; Hernández, Zulimar;

Trends of change in precipitation and in drought susceptibility as assessed by the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) in northeast Portugal

Abstract

Much of NE Portugal is an area of arid zones with moderate to severe susceptibility to desertification and drought. A single and coupled trend analysis of precipitation and SPI drought index was performed in six weather stations in NE Portugal (representative of the regional climate domains), over a seventy-year time series (1931-2000). Precipitation over the study period decreased at most stations, with a more pronounced trend in the wetter areas, whereas in the semiarid areas an increase in precipitation was found. As well as the frequency of months with severe and extreme drought, the frequency of dry and wet months increased when the SPI timescale increased (1 to 6 months) and when a more recent computation period is considered (1931-1960 to 1971-2000). The results highlight a tendency for precipitation extremes to occur in NE Portugal. The general development of trends in precipitation and drought reported in this study confirm a progressive severity in the susceptibility to desertification affecting NE Portugal.

As zonas áridas ocupam boa parte do NE Portugal, região de moderada a severa suscetibilidade à desertificação e seca. A análise de tendência da precipitação, isolada e combinada, e do índice de seca SPI foi realizada em seis estações meteorológicas no NE Portugal (representativas dos climas regionais), no período 1931-2000. A precipitação diminuiu na maioria das estações, de modo mais pronunciado nas áreas mais húmidas, enquanto nas do semiárido se verificou um aumento na precipitação. Tal como no caso da frequência de meses com seca severa e extrema, a frequência de meses secos e húmidos aumentou com o aumento da escala de tempo do SPI (de 1 a 6 meses) e considerando o período de cálculo mais recente (de 1931-1960 a 1971-2000). Os resultados evidenciam uma tendência para o aumento da ocorrência de extremos de precipitação. Estas tendências de mudança na precipitação e seca confirmam um aumento da severidade na suscetibilidade à desertificação que afeta o NE Portugal

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Seca, time trends, Tendências temporais, precipitation extremes, Time trends, drought and desertification, Drought and desertification, seca e desertificação, Precipitações extremas, Desertificação, variabilidade climática., Variabilidade climática, precipitações extremas, Precipitation extremes, Climate variability, tendências temporais

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