Grid-Point Rainfall Trends, Teleconnection Patterns, and Regionalised Droughts in Portugal (1919–2019)

• Published in: Water
• Main Authors: Luis Angel Espinosa, Maria Manuela Portela
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2022
• Subjects: climate change; rainfall trends; teleconnection; regionalised drought; SPI; Portugal; Hydraulic engineering; TC1-978; Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes; TD201-500; Kendall; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/w14121863; https://doaj.org/article/07b87cc51009451e843824362fc071e8

This paper describes the long-term grid-point rainfall trends in the context of climate change, recent regionalised rainfall decline and drought events for mainland Portugal, which is teleconnected, in most cases, to the trends of mathematical descriptions of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) dur...