TY - JOUR
T1 - European Grid Dataset of Actual Evapotranspiration, Water Availability and Effective Precipitation
AU - Nistor, Mărgărit Mircea
AU - Satyanaga, Alfrendo
AU - Dezsi, Ştefan
AU - Haidu, Ionel
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Andreas Hamann for the climate data models. No grant was used to carry out this work, considering that these are the data descriptors of the previous studies of the authors. We would like to express our gratitude to Alessandro Gualtieri from University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2022/5
Y1 - 2022/5
N2 - The sustainability of a territory is closely related to its resources. Due to climate change, the most precious natural resource, water, has been negatively affected by climatic conditions in terms of quantity and quality. CLIMAT datasets of 1 km2 spatial resolution were used and pro-cessed in the ArcGIS environment to generate maps of actual evapotranspiration, water availability, and effective precipitation for the periods of 1961–1990 (1990s), 2011–2040 (2020s), and 2041–2070 (2050s). The product is of paramount importance for the analysis of the actual situation in Europe indicating high water availability in the Alps Range, the Carpathians Mountains, Northern European countries, and the British Islands. On the other hand, low water availability has been evidenced in the Southern and Eastern European areas. For the future period (2050s), the monthly potential evapotranspiration is expected to increase by 30%. The climate models also show an increase in the actual evapotranspiration between past and future periods by 40%. The changes in water availability and effective precipitation between the past (1990s) and future (2050s) indicate decreases of 10%. The most affected areas by climate change are located within the Mediterranean areas, the Iberian Peninsula, and Eastern Europe.
AB - The sustainability of a territory is closely related to its resources. Due to climate change, the most precious natural resource, water, has been negatively affected by climatic conditions in terms of quantity and quality. CLIMAT datasets of 1 km2 spatial resolution were used and pro-cessed in the ArcGIS environment to generate maps of actual evapotranspiration, water availability, and effective precipitation for the periods of 1961–1990 (1990s), 2011–2040 (2020s), and 2041–2070 (2050s). The product is of paramount importance for the analysis of the actual situation in Europe indicating high water availability in the Alps Range, the Carpathians Mountains, Northern European countries, and the British Islands. On the other hand, low water availability has been evidenced in the Southern and Eastern European areas. For the future period (2050s), the monthly potential evapotranspiration is expected to increase by 30%. The climate models also show an increase in the actual evapotranspiration between past and future periods by 40%. The changes in water availability and effective precipitation between the past (1990s) and future (2050s) indicate decreases of 10%. The most affected areas by climate change are located within the Mediterranean areas, the Iberian Peninsula, and Eastern Europe.
KW - CLIMAT datasets
KW - climate change
KW - Europe
KW - infiltration
KW - spatial data
KW - water resources
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U2 - 10.3390/atmos13050772
DO - 10.3390/atmos13050772
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85130369335
SN - 2073-4433
VL - 13
JO - ATMOSPHERE
JF - ATMOSPHERE
IS - 5
M1 - 772
ER -
