Revisiting precipitation variability, trends and drivers in the Canary Islands
ABSTRACT The Canary Islands are characterized by their low availability of water resources and different studies have suggested a decrease of precipitation in the second half of the 20th century. Here, we have used the most complete precipitation data set available in the islands to create a dense h...
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crwiley:10.1002/joc.4937 2024-09-15T18:22:10+00:00 Revisiting precipitation variability, trends and drivers in the Canary Islands Sánchez‐Benítez, Antonio García‐Herrera, Ricardo Vicente‐Serrano, Sergio M. Spanish Commission of Science and Technology and FEDER CSIC Complutense University of Madrid 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.4937 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fjoc.4937 https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/joc.4937 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor International Journal of Climatology volume 37, issue 9, page 3565-3576 ISSN 0899-8418 1097-0088 journal-article 2016 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4937 2024-08-01T04:18:41Z ABSTRACT The Canary Islands are characterized by their low availability of water resources and different studies have suggested a decrease of precipitation in the second half of the 20th century. Here, we have used the most complete precipitation data set available in the islands to create a dense high quality and homogeneous database, which was used to determine the spatio‐temporal precipitation patterns in the archipelago and the influence of oceanic and atmospheric teleconnections. We have produced a robust regionalization of the Canary Islands precipitation, with three patterns that characterizing the south of the most montainous islands and El Hierro and La Gomera, the north of the most montainous islands and the easternmost arid islands (Lanzarote and Fuerteventura), respectively. All of them show high interannual variability, with no significant trends, except in a few cases. We highlight the strong influence of weather types and teleconections, modulated by the orography, with the highest influence recorded in the first pattern. It must be stressed that the oceanic teleconnections (in special with the tropical North Atlantic surface temperature) are more important than the North Atlantic Oscillation to explain interannual variability of precipitation. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation Wiley Online Library International Journal of Climatology 37 9 3565 3576 |
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ABSTRACT The Canary Islands are characterized by their low availability of water resources and different studies have suggested a decrease of precipitation in the second half of the 20th century. Here, we have used the most complete precipitation data set available in the islands to create a dense high quality and homogeneous database, which was used to determine the spatio‐temporal precipitation patterns in the archipelago and the influence of oceanic and atmospheric teleconnections. We have produced a robust regionalization of the Canary Islands precipitation, with three patterns that characterizing the south of the most montainous islands and El Hierro and La Gomera, the north of the most montainous islands and the easternmost arid islands (Lanzarote and Fuerteventura), respectively. All of them show high interannual variability, with no significant trends, except in a few cases. We highlight the strong influence of weather types and teleconections, modulated by the orography, with the highest influence recorded in the first pattern. It must be stressed that the oceanic teleconnections (in special with the tropical North Atlantic surface temperature) are more important than the North Atlantic Oscillation to explain interannual variability of precipitation. |
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Sánchez‐Benítez, Antonio García‐Herrera, Ricardo Vicente‐Serrano, Sergio M. Revisiting precipitation variability, trends and drivers in the Canary Islands |
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Revisiting precipitation variability, trends and drivers in the Canary Islands |
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Revisiting precipitation variability, trends and drivers in the Canary Islands |
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Revisiting precipitation variability, trends and drivers in the Canary Islands |
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Revisiting precipitation variability, trends and drivers in the Canary Islands |
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Revisiting precipitation variability, trends and drivers in the Canary Islands |
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revisiting precipitation variability, trends and drivers in the canary islands |
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