A multidecadal assessment of climate indices over Europe

Domínguez-Castro, Fernando ; Reig, Fergus ; Vicente-Serrano, Sergio M. ; Aguilar, Enric ; Peña-Angulo, Dhais ; Noguera, Iván ; Revuelto, Jesús ; van der Schrier, Gerard ; El Kenawy, Ahmed M.

Resumen: Monitoring and management of several environmental and socioeconomic sectors require climate data that can be summarized using a set of standard and meaningful climate metrics. This study describes a newly developed gridded dataset for the whole of Europe, which employed a set of 125 climate indices spanning different periods based on data availability, but mainly 1950–2017 and 1979–2017. This dataset comprehensively summarizes climate variability in Europe for a wide range of climate variables and conditions, including air temperature, precipitation, biometeorology, aridity, continentality, drought, amongst others. Climate indices were computed at different temporal scales (i.e. monthly, seasonal and annual) and mapped at a grid interval of 0.25°. We intend to update these indices on an annual basis. This dataset is freely available to research and end-user communities.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-0464-0

Año: 2020

Publicado en: Scientific Data 7 (2020), 125 1-7
ISSN: 2052-4463

Factor impacto JCR: 6.444 (2020)

Categ. JCR: MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES rank: 11 / 73 = 0.151 (2020) - Q1 - T1

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 2.564 - Computer Science Applications (Q1) - Education (Q1) - Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (Q1) - Library and Information Sciences (Q1) - Statistics and Probability (Q1) - Information Systems (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/690462/EU/European Research Area for Climate Services/ERA4CS
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/CGL2017-82216-R
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/CGL2017-83866-C3-1-R
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/PCIN-2015-220

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)