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Trends in the frequency of meteorological droughts in Europe for the period 1950-2015

Figure Created 02 Nov 2021 Last modified 28 Mar 2022

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Topics: Climate change adaptation Water and marine environment

Hatching indicates the areas in which the trends are statistically significant at 95 % level.

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Units:: events/decade²
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Original publication: JRC: Science for Disaster Risk Management 2017, doi:10.2788/842809, Figure 3.35
A drought event is defined as a continuous period of at least two months in which the SPI-3 is below -1 (see Spinoni et al. 2017, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2016.11.013)
Trends are expressed in number of events per decade squared. For example, a trend of +1 means that a location will experience each decade, on average, one drought event more than in the previous decade

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