| Nadal-Romero, E. (1), Peña-Angulo, D. (1), Albaladejo, J. (2), Andreu, V. (3), Bahri, H. (4), Bagarello, V. (5), Batalla, R., (6), Bienes, R. (7), Campo, J. (3), Campo-Bescós, M.A. (8), Canatario, A. (9), Cantón, Y. (10), Casali, J. (8), Castillo, V. (2), Cid, P. (11), Cortesi, N. (12), Desir, G. (13), Díaz, E. (2), Ferreira, C. (14), Ferro, V. (5), Giménez, R. (8), Gimeno, E. (3), Gómez, J.A. (15), Gómez-Gutiérrez, A. (16), González-Hidalgo, J.C. (1), Klotz, S. (17) Kosmas, C. (18), Lana-Renault, N. (19), Lasanta, T. (20), Lázaro, R., (21), Le Bissonnais, Y. (22), Le Bouteiller, C. (17), Licciardello, F. (23), López-Tarazón, J.A. (24), Lucía, A. (25), Marín, C. (13), Marqués, M.J., (26) Martínez-Fernández, J. (27), Martínez-Mena, M. (2), Martínez-Murillo, J.F. (28), Mateos, L. (15), Novara, A. (5), Pachecho, E. (29), Raclot, D. (22), Rodríguez-Blanco, M.L. (30), Romero-Díaz, A. (31), Rubio, J.L. (3), Ruiz-Sinoga, J.D. (28), Schnabel, S. (16), Simonneaux, V. (32), Solé-Benet, A. (21), Taguas, E.V. (33), Taboada-Castro, M.M. (30), Taboada-Casto, M.T. (30), Todisco, F. (34), Úbeda, X. (29), Varouchakis, E. A. (35), Zabaleta, A. (36), Zorn, M. (37)
(1) Departamento de Geografía, Instituto Universitario de Ciencias Ambientales (IUCA), Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
(2) Soil and water conservation research group, CEBAS-CSIC, Murcia, Spain
(3) Degradación y conservación de suelos, Centro de Investigación sobre Desertificación (CIDE), Valencia, Spain
(4) INRGREF, Tunis, Tunisia
(5) Department of Scienze Agrarie e Forestali, University of Palermo, viale delle scienze, Palermo, Italy
(6) Department de Medi Ambient, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain
(7) Departamento Investigación Aplicada y Extensión Agraria. Instituto Madrileño de Investigación y Desarrollo Rural, Agrario y Alimentario (IMIDRA), Madrid, Spain
(8) Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agrónoma, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
(9) Polytechnic Institute of Catelo Branco, School of Agriculture (ESACB), Portugal
(10) Departamento de Agronomía, Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain
(11) Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the Nactional Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
(12) Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion, Department of Earth Sciences, Barcelona, Spain
(13) Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
(14) Centro de Estudos de Recursos Naturais, Ambiente e Sociedade (CERNAS), Coimbra Agrarian Technical School, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
(15) Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible—CSIC, Córdoba, Spain
(16) Grupo de Investigación GeoAmbiental (GIGA), Área de Geografía Física, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
(17) Department of Waters, National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture, France
(18) Department of Natural Resources Management and Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece
(19) Area of Physical Geography, Luis Vives Building, Luis de Ulloa Street, University of La Rioja, 26006 Logroño, Spain
(20) Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, IPE-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
(21) Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, EEZA-CSIC, Almería, Spain
(22) IRD, LISAH, Montpellier, France
(23) Department of Agri-Food and Environmental Systems Management, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
(24) Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
(25) Center for Applied Geosciences. Faculty of Science, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
(26) Departamento de Geología y Geoquímica, Universidad Autónoma Madrid, Madrid, Spain
(27) Departamento de Geografía, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
(28) Departamento de Geografía, Grupo de Investigación Geografía Física y Territorio—RNM279, Andalucía Tech, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
(29) Grup de Recerca Ambiental Mediterrània, Departamento de Geografia Física i AGR, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
(30) Facultad de Ciencias and Centro de Investigaciones Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), University of A Coruña, Campus de A Coruña, Spain
(31) Departamento de Geografía, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
(32) French National Research Institut for Sustainable Development (IRD), CESBIO Laboratory, Toulouse, France.
(33) Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica e I. de Montes, Departamento de Ingeniería Rural, Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain
(34) Departament of Environmental and Agricultural Sciences, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
(35) Technical University of Crete, School of Environmental Engineering, Chania, Greece
(36) Departamento de Geodinámica, Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, Leioa, Spain
(37) Geographical Institute, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Erosion processes and land degradation are recognized as one of the most significant environmental problems worldwide. In the Mediterranean region, intense erosion processes occur as a consequence of complex interactions between environmental conditions (e.g. climate, lithology) and human-related factors (e.g. history of human activity, land use changes) (García-Ruiz et al., 2013).
Precipitation has been recognized as one of the main factors driving soil erosion. In climatology, one of the most common approaches in analyzing spatial and temporal precipitation variability is the circulation of weather types (WTs), which categorize the continuum of atmospheric circulation into a small number of classes or types. Flood generation and soil erosion are associated with specific weather conditions. Previous research in the Iberian Peninsula has analyzed the relationship between precipitation and specific WTs, demonstrating that specific WTs are the main drivers of precipitation and soil erosion in the different areas (Cortesi et al., 2014; Nadal-Romero et al., 2015).
In this study, we present a preliminary analysis of WTs and runoff and soil erosion data from 50 study areas in the Mediterranean basin including different land uses. To do so,we have collected and jointed different research groups cross the Mediterranean Basin, and combined different databases (plots and small representative catchments) with the WT classification calculated using the NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project. This pioneer research will be a valuable tool in understanding the relationships between weather types, precipitation and soil erosion dynamics.
Acknowledgments
Estela Nadal-Romero was the beneficiary of a “Ramón y Cajal” postdoctoral contract (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness). José Andrés López-Tarazón is in receipt of a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (Project ‘‘Floodhazards’’, PIEF-GA-2013-622468, Seventh EU Framework Programme).
References
Cortesi, N., González-Hidalgo, J.C., Trigo, R.M., Ramos, A.M., 2014. Weather types and spatial variability of precipitation in the Iberian Peninsula. International Journal of Climatology 34(8), 2661-2677.
García-Ruiz, J.M., Nadal-Romero, E., Lana-Renault, N., Beguería, S., 2013. Erosion in Mediterranean landscapes: Changes and future challenges. Geomorphology 198, 20-36.
Nadal-Romero, E., González-Hidalgo, J.C., Cortesi, N., Desir, G., Gómez, J.A., et al., 2015. Relationship of runoff, erosion and sediment yield to weather types in the Iberian Peninsula. Geomorphology 228, 372-381. |