Assessing extreme droughts in Spain during 1750–1850 from rogation ceremonies

Domínguez‐Castro, Fernando; Ribera, Pedro; García‐Herrera, Ricardo; Vaquero, J. M.; Barriendos, Mariano; Cuadrat, José María; Moreno, José M.

doi:10.5194/cp-8-705-2012

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“…Both indices also agreed to identify the major drought occurred in Barcelona between years 1822 and 1825 and the wettest event to years 1971 and 1972. This is in good agreement with Prohom et al (2015) who listed the years 1822, 1823 and 1824 into the top six of the driest years in Barcelona (1787Barcelona ( -2014 during the exceptional dry period occurred in the early 19th century (Domínguez-Castro et al, 2012), while the wettest year of the time series was also 1971. From the similarities found in both the SPI and SPEITh series can be concluded that precipitation is the main driver on drought variability according to drought indices, but reference evapotranspiration (only included in the SPEITh) is playing a substantial role in explaining drought severity especially during the last three decades.…”

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“…Extremely dry conditions were also found in southern Europe for the period 1808-1835 according to Pauling et al (2006). The main cause of this extremely dry period was the large decrease of precipitation due to the high volcanic activity during the solar Dalton Minimum in the early 19th century (Anet et al, 2014;Domínguez-Castro et al, 2012). Barcelona (1901Barcelona ( -2014 based on the Thornthwaite (Th) and Hargreaves (Hg) …”

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“…Spain is highly affected by droughts [14,15], and various major drought episodes occurred during the 20th century, some of which affected the country for several years [16,17]. Droughts in Spain have severe economic impacts [18], including affecting the availability of water resources [19], causing forest decline and mortality [20,21], reducing vegetation activity [22], and causing failures in crop yields [23].…”

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A High Resolution Dataset of Drought Indices for Spain

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Drought indices are essential metrics for quantifying drought severity and identifying possible changes in the frequency and duration of drought hazards. In this study, we developed a new high spatial resolution dataset of drought indices covering all of Spain. The dataset includes seven drought indices, spans the period 1961-2014, and has a spatial resolution of 1.1 km and a weekly temporal resolution. A web portal has been created to enable download and visualization of the data. The data can be downloaded as single gridded points for each drought index, but the entire drought index dataset can also be downloaded in netCDF4 format. The dataset will be updated for complete years as the raw meteorological data become available.

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“…Neukom et al ., ; Prieto and García‐Herrera, ), the Arab world (e.g. Bulliet, ; Domínguez‐Castro et al ., , ), Africa (e.g. Gallego et al ., ; Nicholson et al ., ; Nash et al ., ), or Oceania (e.g.…”

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Wet and dry extremes in Quito (Ecuador) since the 17th century

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2017

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Wet and dry extremes in Quito (Ecuador) over the last 400 years are studied using two sources of information: the longest available instrumental rainfall series in northern South America (1891–2015) and the rogation ceremonies recorded in the Chapter Acts of Quito (1600–1822). The rogation ceremonies present a seasonal distribution that is related to the crops and to the typical distribution of rainfall over the year. August was the month with most pro serenitate rogations because farmers needed dry conditions for harvest, whereas excess rainfall at this time would lead to rotting and loss of the harvest. The pro pluvia rogations were markedly more frequent during January and February when farmers needed rain for sowing. This relationship between climate and farming activities makes Quito's rogations a good proxy for drought and extreme wet conditions during January–February–March (JFM) and wet conditions during June–July–August (JJA). Standardized precipitation index (SPI) was computed for the instrumental period. The 3‐month SPI showed a significant linear trend over the last 125 years (−0.4 per decade, p = 0.009). The five wettest periods were 1651–1657, 1663–1669, 1913–1919, 1950–1956, and 1981–1985. Droughts have intensified in frequency and length since the middle of the 20th century. The most important drought periods were 1692–1701, 1718–1723, 1976–1980, 1990–1993, and 2001–2006. The severest drought during the last 400 years occurred in 1692–1701 when a great famine devastated Quito and affected most of the central Andes.

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Assessing extreme droughts in Spain during 1750–1850 from rogation ceremonies

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Long-term drought variability and trends in Barcelona (1787-2014)

Long-term drought variability and trends in Barcelona (1787-2014)

A High Resolution Dataset of Drought Indices for Spain

Wet and dry extremes in Quito (Ecuador) since the 17th century

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