Snow pack in the Romanian Carpathians under changing climatic conditions

Micu, Dana

doi:10.1007/s00703-009-0035-6

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“…This weather station registered also a cyclic precipitation behavior, but with an overall downward trend, as current day precipitations did not come back to the previous levels of the 1960s and 1970s. An overall downward trend in precipitation has been observed also by other climatic analysis of Romanian climate [28,25].…”

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Expected changes in the floristic structure of hygro-cryophilic and snowbed plant communities from the Romanian Carpathians, caused by climate change and human impact

Stoica¹,

Hodor²,

Tudose³

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Abstract:In the Romanian Carpathians, there are only 6 massifs where glacial forms (valleys and cirques) occupy sufficiently large areas to support typical high altitude wetlands and snowbed vegetation. We have analyzed 424 relevées with this type of vegetation published in Romanian literature in the past century from these massifs. The cryophilic vegetation was grouped in 17 plant associations, 4 alliances and 3 Natura 2000 habitats. A total of 150 subalpine-alpine plant species (11 endemic) were registered in these communities (27% of the total 550 high mountain taxa found in the entire Romanian Carpathian range). Future scenarios for the glacial landforms of the Carpathians suggest a temperature increase of about 2. are the most exposed to the threat of climate warming, as the disappearance of their typical habitat would mean extinction. Aside from the endemic flora, other cryophilic alpine taxa are also threatened. Natura 2000 habitats typical to these landforms (6150, 7240* and 3220) are being monitored in all 6 massifs, but there are no current administrative measures to monitor the presence of cryophilic species or plans to place glacial landforms under strict protection (IUCN category 1a), measures needed as human impact is more and more present at high altitudes.

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“…[25]. In the eastern and southern rim of the Romanian Carpathians, above 1700 m.s.m., the maximum snow depth (39-71 cm) occurs currently in March while snow cover duration in the subalpine and alpine belts has been reduced to 4-4 ½ months [26].…”

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Expected changes in the floristic structure of hygro-cryophilic and snowbed plant communities from the Romanian Carpathians, caused by climate change and human impact

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Tudose³

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“…Stahl et al (2010) showed that the regional tendencies found in European streamflow variability were part of a continental-scale pattern of change -with generally upward annual trends in Northern Europe and downward trends in the south -, proved to fit well with the hydrological responses expected from future climatic changes (Stahl et al 2012). In Romania, previous hydroclimatic studies were focused on changes in precipitation (Busuioc and von Storch 1996;Tomozeiu et al 2005), temperature (e.g., Rimbu et al 2014), evapotranspiration (Croitoru et al 2013), wind speed (Birsan et al 2013) or snow (Micu 2009), while streamflow variability have only been analyzed for small areas Croitoru and Minea 2014), for mountain basins (Birsan et al 2012, or for a particular season (Ionita et al 2014;Ionita 2015). This paper presents a 50-year country-wide analysis of monthly streamflow trends in Romania, using not only records from pristine river basins (available almost exclusively in the mountainous areas), but also reconstructed data series of the natural runoff regime, providing a good coverage over the entire country.…”

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Trends in Monthly Natural Streamflow in Romania and Linkages to Atmospheric Circulation in the North Atlantic

Bîrsan

2015

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Natural and reconstructed monthly streamflow records from 172 river basins in Romania (143 with full records and 29 with less than 10 % missing values) have been analyzed for trends with the nonparametric Mann-Kendall test for the period 1956-2005. The statistical significance of trends was tested for each station on a monthly basis. Changes in the streamflow regime in Romania are demonstrated. The monthly flow presents upward trends from August to January, and predominantly downward trends from February to June. The most important changes are the increasing streamflow trends from September till November, which are well explained by the increase in autumn precipitation. The annual streamflow shows a dependence on latitude, with increasing trends in the northern part, and decreasing in the south. Strong negative correlations between the North Atlantic Oscillation and the mean annual streamflow have been found in western and southern Romania, highlighting the influence of the large-scale atmospheric circulation on Romanian annual streamflow in these areas, as well as the important orographic role of the Carpathian Mountains.

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“…In the Pyrenees, a significant reduction of the snowpack is reported after the 1950s (López-Moreno et al, 2007). In other European mountains, observations are less abundant, but declines in snowpack for mountains in Romania (Birsan and Dumitrescu, 15 2014;Micu, 2009), Bulgaria (Brown and Petkova, 2007), Poland (Falarz, 2008) and Croatia (Gajić-Čapka, 2011) are reported.…”

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The European mountain cryosphere: A review of past, current and future issues

Beniston

Farinotti

Stoffel

et al. 2017

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Abstract. The mountain cryosphere is recognized to have important impacts on a range of environmental processes. This 30 paper reviews current knowledge on snow, glacier, and permafrost processes, as well as their past, current and future The Cryosphere Discuss., doi:10.5194/tc-2016Discuss., doi:10.5194/tc- -290, 2017 Manuscript under review for journal The Cryosphere Published: 9 January 2017 c Author(s) 2017. CC-BY 3.0 License. 2 evolution in mountain regions in mainland Europe. We provide a comprehensive assessment of the current state of cryosphere research in Europe and point to the different domains requiring further research to improve our understanding of climate-cryosphere interactions, cryosphere controls on physical and biological mountain systems, as well as related impacts.We highlight advances in the modeling of the cryosphere, and identify inherent uncertainties in our capability of projecting changes in the context of a warming global climate. 5

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Snow pack in the Romanian Carpathians under changing climatic conditions

Cited by 67 publications

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Expected changes in the floristic structure of hygro-cryophilic and snowbed plant communities from the Romanian Carpathians, caused by climate change and human impact

Expected changes in the floristic structure of hygro-cryophilic and snowbed plant communities from the Romanian Carpathians, caused by climate change and human impact

Trends in Monthly Natural Streamflow in Romania and Linkages to Atmospheric Circulation in the North Atlantic

The European mountain cryosphere: A review of past, current and future issues

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