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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY
卷 41, 期 -, 页码 E1-E25出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/joc.6741
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extreme rainfall events; meteorological droughts; precipitation intensity; seasonal and annual precipitation; total precipitation; weight factor; wet days
The research in Italy shows a decrease in wet days and slightly less evident negative trend in total precipitation, especially in winter. There is a limited regional discrepancy in the decrease of wet days, but achieving a univocal direction of trends in annual total precipitation and hydrological extreme events is difficult.
Research to detect changes in precipitation variables has become a topic of particular interest to understand modifications in water resources availability. The review is focused on the Italian territory, outlining the state of the art of changes in precipitation regime through a review of 54 published studies on observed rainfall trend analyses, in the period 1999-2018. The aim is to combine a large body of knowledge in a single review and to explain the main patterns of rainfall changes occurred in Italy over the last decades. The analysis focused on the Total Precipitation (TP) and the number of Wet Days (WDs) indices at the annual and seasonal scale. A weight factor is introduced to take into account the differences among studies in geographical area, time series length, and number of stations. The review is accompanied by the discussion of other rainfall related variables, that is, precipitation intensity, extreme rainfall events and meteorological droughts, which are useful to provide a broader picture of rainfall changes. Overall, there is an agreement about the tendency of a decrease in wet days on the entire Italy, with limited discrepancies in the various regions. A decrease in wet days is accompanied by a negative trend (although less evident) in total precipitation, especially in winter. Nevertheless, a univocal direction of trends (or lack of thereof) in annual total precipitation and mostly hydrological extreme events is difficult to achieve.
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