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- Title
Modelling monthly precipitation with circulation weather types for a dense network of stations over Iberia.
- Authors
Cortesi, N.; Trigo, R. M.; Gonzalez-Hidalgo, J. C.; Ramos, A. M.
- Abstract
Precipitation over the Iberian Peninsula (IP) is highly variable and shows large spatial contrasts between wet mountainous regions to the north, and dry regions in the inland plains and southern areas. In this work, we modelled the relationship between atmospheric circulation weather types (WTs) and monthly precipitation for the wet half of the year (October to May) using a 10 km grid derived from a high-density dataset for the IP (3030 precipitation series, overall mean density one station each 200 km²). We detected two spatial gradients in the relationship between WTs and precipitation. The percentage of monthly precipitation explained by WTs varies from northwest (higher variance explained) to southeast (lower variance explained). Additionally, in the IP the number of WTs that contribute significantly to monthly precipitation increase systematically from east to west. Generally speaking, the model performance is better to the west than to the east where the WTs approach produce the less accurate results. We applied the WTs modelling approach to reconstruct the long-term precipitation time series for three major stations of Iberia (Lisbon, Madrid, Valencia).
- Subjects
IBERIAN Peninsula; METEOROLOGICAL precipitation; ATMOSPHERIC circulation; MOUNTAINS; TIME series analysis; ARID regions
- Publication
Hydrology & Earth System Sciences, 2013, Vol 17, Issue 1, p665
- ISSN
1027-5606
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/hess-17-665-2013