2012: from drought to floods in England and Wales

作者：Simon Parry, Terry Marsh, Mike Kendon · 发表于：Weather · 年份：2013 · DOI：10.1002/wea.2152 · 被引用次数：111 · 研究领域：Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research、Flood Risk Assessment and Management、Climate variability and models

This paper examines the exceptionally wet conditions which began in April 2012, abruptly terminating the prolonged 2010-12 drought across England & Wales (reviewed in Kendon et al. 2013) and culminating in exceptional runoff and aquifer recharge rates late in the year.The hydrological transformation during the late spring and summer of 2012 was without close modern parallel for the time of year.http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/weather Wather 1 EWP series, after Alexander & Jones (2001).Throughout this article 'England & Wales' denotes England and Wales combined.For more information on data sources, see Kendon et al. (2013). 2 The area of Lowland England is defined within the black solid line in Figure 1. 3 Highland & Islands Fire & Rescue Service, Quarterly Performance Report.Accessed February 2013 4 For example, at the end of June, the rain-gauge observer at Tornapress, Ross-shire reported their local spring running dry."A good excuse to do no washing -fine until we all ran out of underwear!"(J. Baker, personal communication 10/07/2012)