Articles | Volume 24, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4503-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4503-2020
Research article
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16 Sep 2020
Research article |  | 16 Sep 2020

Specific climate classification for Mediterranean hydrology and future evolution under Med-CORDEX regional climate model scenarios

Antoine Allam, Roger Moussa, Wajdi Najem, and Claude Bocquillon

Data sets

Worldclim-2 data WorldClim https://www.worldclim.org/data/worldclim21.html

Ground weather station data NCEI https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ghcn-daily-description

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Short summary
With serious concerns about global change rising in the Mediterranean, we established a new climatic classification to follow hydrological and ecohydrological activities. The classification coincided with a geographical distribution ranging from the most seasonal and driest class in the south to the least seasonal and most humid in the north. RCM scenarios showed that northern classes evolve to southern ones with shorter humid seasons and earlier snowmelt which might affect hydrologic regimes.