Linking different drought types in a small catchment from a statistical perspective – Case study of the Wernersbach catchment, Germany

Publikation: Beitrag in FachzeitschriftForschungsartikelBeigetragenBegutachtung

Abstract

Drought is a complex natural phenomenon, which is challenging to define and to describe quantitatively. Canonical drought propagation scheme ‘meteorological → agricultural (or soil related) → hydrological’ does not always reflect the reality in a catchment. Thus it is necessary to include compound or cascading effects of precipitation, soil moisture and discharge interactions on different time scales to get a comprehensive picture on the drought characteristics, as well as on its development and recovery. We studied the linkage between droughts over multiply temporal scales and severity levels using various statistical methods for a case study of a small forested catchment in Germany. It was found that indeed different types of droughts are highly interconnected and their behavior can significantly differ from the classical scheme. A simple empirical approach gives frequencies, seasonality and trends of various combinations of droughts. It showed that among all types the test site is mostly exposed to a light hydro-meteorological one especially in autumn months with an increasing trend. Multivariate distributions can be used to evaluate joint probabilities and return periods of drought components. It was revealed that the well-known European drought in 2018 was also presented as an extreme case of a joint hydro-meteo-soil drought in the examined catchment. By Markov chains one can analyze the transition and persistence between droughts. Well-established propagation pathways between different types and severity levels of droughts with high persistence for longer droughts were found for the study area.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer100122
FachzeitschriftJournal of hydrology X
Jahrgang15
Frühes Online-Datum4 Feb. 2022
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 1 Mai 2022
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

Scopus 85124016719
Mendeley b3321c95-b9b3-3bdf-9de0-b804c5a1ea3b
WOS 000793799900001
ORCID /0000-0002-4246-5290/work/142245179
ORCID /0000-0001-7489-9061/work/142249622

Schlagworte

Forschungsprofillinien der TU Dresden

Fächergruppen, Lehr- und Forschungsbereiche, Fachgebiete nach Destatis

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Schlagwörter

  • Catchment, Compound event statistics, Hydrological drought, Meteorological drought, Soil drought