期刊
WEATHER AND CLIMATE EXTREMES
卷 9, 期 -, 页码 57-67出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2015.05.001
关键词
Soil moisture; Extreme temperatures; Generalized extreme value; Extreme value theory; Quantile regression; Land-atmosphere interactions
资金
- World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)
- International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy
- EU-F7 DROUGHT-RSPI project
- ERC DROUGHT-HEAT project
- Canadian Network for Regional Climate and Weather Processes (CNRCWP)
- ERC DROUGHT HEAT project
Land-atmosphere interactions play an important role for hot temperature extremes in Europe. Dry soils may amplify such extremes through feedbacks with evapotranspiration. While previous observational studies generally focused on the relationship between precipitation deficits and the number of hot days, we investigate here the influence of soil moisture (SM) on summer monthly maximum temperatures (TXx) using water balance model-based SM estimates (driven with observations) and temperature observations. Generalized extreme value distributions are fitted to TXx using SM as a covariate. We identify a negative relationship between SM and 7Xx, whereby a 100 mm decrease in model-based SM is associated with a 1.6 degrees C increase in TXx in Southern-Central and Southeastern Europe. Dry SM conditions result in a 2-4 degrees C increase in the 20-year return value of TXx compared to wet conditions in these two regions. In contrast with SM impacts on the number of hot days (NHD), where low and high surface moisture conditions lead to different variability, we find a mostly linear dependency of the 20-year return value on surface-moisture conditions. We attribute this difference to the non-linear relationship between TXx and NHD that stems from the threshold-based calculation of NHD. Furthermore the employed SM data and the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) are only weakly correlated in the investigated regions, highlighting the importance of evapotranspiration and runoff for resulting SM. Finally, in a case study for the hot 2003 summer we illustrate that if 2003 spring conditions in Southern Central Europe had been as dry as in the more recent 2011 event, temperature extremes in summer would have been higher by about 1 degrees C, further enhancing the already extreme conditions which prevailed in that year. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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