press release<\/a> provides more: “This increasing deviation in European drought frequency is observed from the 1980s until today. In a stationary climate, Stagge and co-authors say they would expect this difference to be randomly distributed and stable like it was from the 1950s through the 1970s. ‘This recent and consistently increasing trend is a clear signal, not random noise,’ he added.<\/p>\n“Stagge says the new findings are important to the scientific community and could influence public policy and Europe’s agriculture industries. Many drought monitoring agencies use the indices to determine what constitutes drought, and insurance pilot programs have considered using them to determine whether or not farmers are entitled to compensation if drought affects their region.”<\/p>\n
“The research highlights the increasing need to carefully define drought in a changing climate,” explained Stagge. “Indices that were standardized in the past may drift significantly in a changing climate depending on how a data set is measured and what time period is considered.”<\/p>\n
As a reminder here, Southern Europe is expected to experience large amounts of desertification over the coming decades and centuries as the climate warms. And in the short term, extreme heat waves like the recent “Lucifer” heat wave will be becoming much more common.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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