Elena Mateescu

Meteo Romania | METEOROMANIA · Research

In order to identify changes in the annual temperature extremes, the Mann-Kendall non-parametric trend test has been applied to several thermal indices, recommended by the Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI). The indices were computed from gridded daily data of minimum and maximum temperature at 0.1° resolution (~10 km), fr...

In the latest IPCC report (2014) it was estimated that since the mid-20th century, the number of cold days and nights has decreased and the number of warm days and nights has increased in large parts of Europe. Some recent analyses have found that mean summer maximum temperature change over Europe was +1.6 ± 0.4°C during 1880 to 2005. It seems that...

The paper is aiming to assess the climate change impacts on crop production in Timiş Plain – one of the most stable areas in terms of future climate change signals, using the CERES (Crop-Environment Resource Synthesis) model. This model combines database (climate, soil and crop) with simulation algorithms of the main processes related to crop patte...

În cadrul acestei lucrări, într-un grup de lucru interdisciplinar, alcătuit din eco-fiziologi, amelioratori, tehnologi, agro-meteorologi etc., s-a pornit de la investigarea datelor existente privind procesele de creştere şi rodire ale speciilor pomicole monitorizate de cercetarea pomicolă românească, dar şi de la informaţiile pedologice și agromete...

This paper deals with the trend for Penman-Monteith reference evapotranspiration (ETo), crop evapotranspiration (ETc) and irrigation water requirements (IWRs) of some fruit tree species during the first decade of the 21st century in Southern Romania. These indices were calculated for three weather stations in various relief regions of southern Roma...

Models to determine the climatic suitability of an area for fruit crops using daily temperatures were tested by different authors. Many of its compares the major thermal physiological known ranges of the species (absolute and optimum maximum and minimum temperature tolerated by the crop) with the geographical distribution of climate variables. The...

We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index computed for Băileşti, Bechet, Caracal and Calafat to analyze the multiannual and decadal behavior of soil moisture conditions in the period 1961-2010. We check how Palmer index represents local conditions using observed soil moisture data for the period 1970-2010. Large scale influences and local ones are c...

Understanding the key drivers of agriculture in relation to climate change as well as their interrelationship with land management decisions and policies, one may be able to project future agricultural productions under certain economic, environmental, and social scenarios in order to minimize their negative impacts. The paper is aiming to stress u...

The paper deals with the trend for Penman-Monteith reference evapotranspiration and climatic water deficit during the first decade of the 21st century in Southern Romania vs the 20th century. For the first half of the year the monthly evapotranspiration values were higher for the first decade of the 21st century vs the means of the 20th century. Ho...

This paper deals with the trend for Penman- Monteith reference evapotranspiration, crop evapotranspiration and irrigation water requirements of some crops during the first decade of the 21st century versus the 20th century. These indices were calculated for three weather stations in various regions of southern Romania. Monthly distribution of refer...

This paper deals with the trend for Penman-Monteith reference evapotranspiration (ET o), crop evapotranspiration (ET c) and irrigation water requirements (IWRs) of some horticultural species during the first decade of the 21 st century in Southern Romania. The species studied here were: strawberry, tomato and table grapes. These indices were calcul...

Sustainable development, management, and planning in agriculture benefit from scientific fundaments by using methodologies based on crop-weather relationships and assessment of climate impact on crop production. The negative effects of meteorological extreme events on crop production require specific monitoring methods in order to forecast the evol...

Some of the European systems and sectors have shown particular sensitivity to recent trends in temperature and precipitation. The major goal of this work is to summarize a questionnaire on trends in agroclimatic indices and crop model outputs in Europe. This questionnaire was developed and disseminated by Working Group 2 of the COST 734 Action 'Imp...