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Geophysical Research Abstracts
Vol. 20, EGU2018-15757, 2018
EGU General Assembly 2018
© Author(s) 2018. CC Attribution 4.0 license.
Assessment of oceanity and continentality conditions of the XX Century in
the Iberian Peninsula
Cristina Andrade (1,2,3), Joana Contente (1), Francisco Carvalho (1,4), João Corte-Real (5,6)
(1) Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, NHRC.ipt, Mathematics and Physics Department, Tomar, Portugal (c.andrade@ipt.pt), (2)
Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB), University of
Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal, (3) University of Aveiro, CESAM, Aveiro, Portugal, (4) Centro de
Matemática e Aplicações (CMA), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, (5) ICAAM, University of Évora, Évora,
Portugal, (6) University Lusófona of Humanities and Technologies, DAT/DREAMS, Lisboa, Portugal
The oceanity and continentality conditions clearly influence the climate of a region. Seeking at understanding
these influences on the Iberian Peninsula climate, the spatial distributions of air temperature, precipitation and five
climatic indices are analysed in the period between 1901 and 2012 and in three sub-periods (1901-40, 1941-80 and
1981-2012). This study aims at investigating the Xerothermic index of Gaussen and the continental and oceanic
characteristics of the Iberian climate by using Conrad-Pollak and Johansson Continentality Indices, as well as
Kerner and Marsz Oceanity Indices. Gridded air temperature and precipitation datasets are used on a monthly
basis.
Results reveal hyper-oceanic (maritime) characteristics in the northernmost portion of Iberia, continental in
the inner region comprising Extremadura, Castile-La Mancha and Andalusia, and maritime characteristics in
between. It is worth mentioning that within these regions the maritime (continental) characteristics become weaker
(stronger) between 1981 and 2012. Statistically significant linear trends show an increase in both temperature
(2-4 ˚C) and on continental influences in the northwestern and southeastern regions of Iberia for the entire
period. Statistically significant correlations are also found between the Johansson Continentality Index and both
Conrad-Pollak and Marsz Oceanity Indices at a 95% confidence level, revealing a good agreement of results
among these indices.
This work is supported by: European Investment Funds by FEDER/COMPETE/POCI Operational Compet-
itiveness and Internationalization Program, under POCentro-PT2020-FEDER project Centro-01-0145-FEDER-
024253.
This work is supported by: European Investment Funds by FEDER/COMPETE/POCI-Operational Competitive-
ness and Internationalization Programme, under Project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006958 and National Funds by
FCT - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, under the project UID/AGR/04033/2013.