[HTML][HTML] Unprecedented warmth: A look at Spain's exceptional summer of 2022

R Serrano-Notivoli, E Tejedor, P Sarricolea… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - Elsevier
The warming of the global climate system is expected to result in significant socio-economic
stress, primarily through the occurrence of extreme weather and climate events, with the …

[HTML][HTML] Large increases of multi-year droughts in north-western Europe in a warmer climate

K van der Wiel, TJ Batelaan, N Wanders - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
Three consecutive dry summers in western Europe (2018–2019–2020) had widespread
negative impacts on society and ecosystems, and started societal debate on (changing) …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in drought features at the European level over the last 120 years

M Ionita, V Nagavciuc - Natural Hazards and Earth System …, 2021 - nhess.copernicus.org
In this study we analyze drought features at the European level over the period 1901–2019
using three drought indices: the standardized precipitation index (SPI), the standardized …

[HTML][HTML] Lessons from the 2018–2019 European droughts: a collective need for unifying drought risk management

V Blauhut, M Stoelzle, L Ahopelto… - … hazards and earth …, 2022 - nhess.copernicus.org
Drought events and their impacts vary spatially and temporally due to diverse pedo-climatic
and hydrologic conditions, as well as variations in exposure and vulnerability, such as …

[HTML][HTML] Vulnerability of European ecosystems to two compound dry and hot summers in 2018 and 2019

A Bastos, R Orth, M Reichstein, P Ciais… - Earth system …, 2021 - esd.copernicus.org
In 2018 and 2019, central Europe was affected by two consecutive extreme dry and hot
summers (DH18 and DH19). The DH18 event had severe impacts on ecosystems and likely …

[HTML][HTML] Future drought propagation through the water-energy-food-ecosystem nexus–A Nordic perspective

C Teutschbein, E Jonsson, A Todorović… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Droughts can affect a multitude of public and private sectors, with impacts developing slowly
over time. While droughts are traditionally quantified in relation to the hydrological …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid beech decline under recurrent drought stress: Individual neighborhood structure and soil properties matter

G Schmied, H Pretzsch, D Ambs, E Uhl… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
During the summer of 2022, an acute drought once more afflicted central and southern
Europe. This marked the third episode (after 2015 and 2018) of severe aridity in large parts …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term drought intensification over Europe driven by the weakening trend of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

M Ionita, V Nagavciuc, P Scholz, M Dima - Journal of Hydrology: Regional …, 2022 - Elsevier
Study region Europe, with a particular focus on the Czech Republic, Poland, Spain, and
Norway. Study focus Long-lasting droughts have become a semi-permanent feature of the …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying drought effects in Central European grasslands through regression-based unmixing of intra-annual Sentinel-2 time series

K Kowalski, A Okujeni, M Brell, P Hostert - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Severe droughts caused unprecedented impacts on grasslands in Central Europe in 2018
and 2019. Yet, spatially varying drought impacts on grasslands remain poorly understood as …

[HTML][HTML] A generalized framework for drought monitoring across central European grassland gradients with Sentinel-2 time series

K Kowalski, A Okujeni, P Hostert - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Fractional cover time series of photosynthetic vegetation (PV), non-photosynthetic
vegetation (NPV), and soil from remote sensing provide essential detail to understand how …