Iberian extreme precipitation 1855/1856: an analysis from early instrumental observations and documentary sources
- Authors
- Dom?nguez Castro, Fernando
- Format
- Article
- Status
- publishedVersion
- Description
Flood events is the natural hazard that originated more damages and fatalities in the Iberian Peninsula in thelast decades. While most 20th century extreme precipitation and ?ood episodes in Iberia have been documented, the samedoes not hold for most events that took place during the 19th century. This article describes the unusually high precipitationand associated impacts recorded during the 1855/1856 hydrological year. We combine newspaper reports, early instrumentalprecipitation series and sea level pressure (SLP) reconstructed gridded ?elds. The early instrumental precipitation time seriesincludes 11 observatories that were not previously digitized and preceded the implementation of the of?cial meteorologicalobservation network in Spain. We show that high values of precipitation were mostly recorded during the months of September,October 1855 and January 1856, with most of the ?ooding and damages occurring in the last month. The use of daily circulationweather types and monthly differences of SLP are particularly useful to explain the heavy precipitation in October and January,which were clearly associated with unusual high frequencies of wet weather types. However, SLP patterns cannot explain theSeptember records, which could be associated to upper cold air intrusions in the Iberian Peninsula
Escuela Polit?cnica Nacional
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260993963_Iberian_extreme_precipitation_18551856_An_analysis_from_early_instrumental_observations_and_documentary_sources
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Language
- eng
- Topic
- IBERIAN PENINSULA
FOODS
EARLY METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS
RAINFALL
AUTUMN 1855
WINTER 1856
- Repository
- Repositorio SENESCYT
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- openAccess