CLM climate scenario and its impact on seasonality changes in short-term rainfall intensities in mountainous regions of Slovakia

Abstract

The study is focusing on detecting changes in short-term rainfall at 4 selected climatological stations in the mountainous area in the northern part of Slovakia. The aim of the paper was to detect trends and seasonal changes in the future horizons using the outputs of the Community Land Model (CLM) scenario, which is a moderately pessimistic scenario that compares well to current processes in the atmosphere. The scenario was used to compare historical and simulated future 2070-2100 periods. Finally, the results obtained for the stations from the high mountainous areas, were compared with the results from the southern parts of Slovakia. The results provide an overview of the predicted changes in the seasonality and trends of the short-term rainfall intensities in areas with mountainous climate in Slovakia.

Differences in the long-term regimes of extreme floods using seasonality indices at Slovak Danube River tributaries

“…Detailed daily discharges are available at Slovak water gauging stations, but the size of the river basins is different. Selected Slovak water gauging stations (T13-T23; Table 1) at Danube tributaries are described in more details in Halmová and Pekárová (2020) and describe on Fig. 1.…”

“…The seasonality of the hydrologic characteristics is characterised by two indices. The first one describes the seasonality of mean monthly precipitation and runoff and is quantified by the Pardé coefficient, as an index defined for each month of the year (Halmová and Pekárová, 2020). The second index describes the seasonality of the maximum annual floods and annual maxima of daily precipitation, respectively.…”