Extreme rainfall events in Morocco: Spatial dependence and climate drivers ...
The history of Morocco is replete with tragic natural disasters related to floods that led to numerous casualties and significant material losses. An important driver of these floods is extreme precipitation. Understanding the spatial characteristics of extreme precipitation events is critical to ac...
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ftdatacite:10.48350/183214 2023-07-23T04:20:37+02:00 Extreme rainfall events in Morocco: Spatial dependence and climate drivers ... Chaqdid, Abdelaziz Tuel, Alexandre El Fatimy, Abdelouahad El Moçayd, Nabil 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.48350/183214 https://boris.unibe.ch/183214/ unknown Elsevier https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2023.100556 open access Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode cc-by-nc-nd-4.0 http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 550 Earth sciences & geology 910 Geography & travel 500 Science Text journal article ScholarlyArticle article-journal 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48350/18321410.1016/j.wace.2023.100556 2023-07-03T18:32:01Z The history of Morocco is replete with tragic natural disasters related to floods that led to numerous casualties and significant material losses. An important driver of these floods is extreme precipitation. Understanding the spatial characteristics of extreme precipitation events is critical to accurately predicting, assessing, and mitigating the risks they pose. Yet, the physical drivers of extreme precipitation events (EPEs) in Morocco remain poorly known. To address this gap, we apply a clustering method to divide Morocco into regions that are spatially consistent in terms of extreme precipitation. We then determine the drivers of extreme precipitation by analyzing atmospheric circulation anomalies during the occurrence of some well chosen EPEs in each region. Our findings suggest that Morocco can be subdivided into 5 spatially coherent regions. Extreme precipitation in the northwestern regions is associated with patterns similar to the negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) with strong ... Text North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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The history of Morocco is replete with tragic natural disasters related to floods that led to numerous casualties and significant material losses. An important driver of these floods is extreme precipitation. Understanding the spatial characteristics of extreme precipitation events is critical to accurately predicting, assessing, and mitigating the risks they pose. Yet, the physical drivers of extreme precipitation events (EPEs) in Morocco remain poorly known. To address this gap, we apply a clustering method to divide Morocco into regions that are spatially consistent in terms of extreme precipitation. We then determine the drivers of extreme precipitation by analyzing atmospheric circulation anomalies during the occurrence of some well chosen EPEs in each region. Our findings suggest that Morocco can be subdivided into 5 spatially coherent regions. Extreme precipitation in the northwestern regions is associated with patterns similar to the negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) with strong ... |
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