Independent Aridity and Drought Pieces of Evidence Based on Meteorological Data and Tree Ring Data in Southeast Banat, Vojvodina, Serbia
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Study Area and Data
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Data
3. Methods
3.1. The De Martonne Aridity Index
3.2. Forestry Aridity Index
3.3. The Palmer Drought Severity Index
3.4. The Tree Ring Width Index
3.5. Data Analysis
3.6. Software
4. Results
4.1. Annual Distributions and Trends
4.1.1. The De Martonne Aridity Index
4.1.2. The Forestry Aridity Index
4.1.3. The Palmer Drought Severity Index
4.1.4. The Tree Ring Width Index
4.1.5. Temperature and Precipitation
4.2. Correlation Analysis
5. Discussion
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Types of Climate | Values of IaDM |
---|---|
Arid | IaDM < 10 |
Semi-arid | 10 ≤ IaDM < 20 |
Mediterranean | 20 ≤ IaDM < 24 |
Semi-humid | 24 ≤ IaDM < 28 |
Humid | 28 ≤ IaDM < 35 |
Very humid | 35 ≤ IaDM ≤ 55 |
Extremely humid | IaDM > 55 |
FAI Values | Forestry Climate Categories |
---|---|
Less than 4.75 | Beech climate |
4.75–6.00 | Hornbeam-oak climate |
6.00–7.25 | The sessile oak/Turkey oak climate |
More than 7.25 | Forest-steppe climate |
Site | SE Banat |
---|---|
Altitude (m AMSL) | 83–181 |
Standard deviation (SD) | 0.29 |
First-order autocorrelation (AC1) | 0.18 |
Length of chronology (CL, years) | 99 |
Mean tree ring width (mm) | 3.31 |
Mean inter-series correlation (Rbar) | 0.40 |
Expressed population signal (EPS) | 0.92 |
Ordinar | Climate Parameters | Periods | Trends | |
---|---|---|---|---|
SE Banat | Vojvodina | |||
1. | TRWI | 1927–2017 | No | - |
2. | Ta | 1949–2017 | Yes | Yes |
3. | Pa | 1949–2017 | No | No |
4. | DM Aridity Index | 1949–2017 | No | No |
5. | FAI | 1949–2017 | No | No |
6. | PDSI | 1927–2016 | No | No |
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Gavrilov, M.B.; An, W.; Xu, C.; Radaković, M.G.; Hao, Q.; Yang, F.; Guo, Z.; Perić, Z.; Gavrilov, G.; Marković, S.B. Independent Aridity and Drought Pieces of Evidence Based on Meteorological Data and Tree Ring Data in Southeast Banat, Vojvodina, Serbia. Atmosphere 2019, 10, 586. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10100586
Gavrilov MB, An W, Xu C, Radaković MG, Hao Q, Yang F, Guo Z, Perić Z, Gavrilov G, Marković SB. Independent Aridity and Drought Pieces of Evidence Based on Meteorological Data and Tree Ring Data in Southeast Banat, Vojvodina, Serbia. Atmosphere. 2019; 10(10):586. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10100586
Chicago/Turabian StyleGavrilov, Milivoj B., Wenling An, Chenxi Xu, Milica G. Radaković, Qingzhen Hao, Fan Yang, Zhengtang Guo, Zoran Perić, Gavrilo Gavrilov, and Slobodan B. Marković. 2019. "Independent Aridity and Drought Pieces of Evidence Based on Meteorological Data and Tree Ring Data in Southeast Banat, Vojvodina, Serbia" Atmosphere 10, no. 10: 586. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10100586