RT info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
T1 Análisis de las olas de calor y variables asociadas en América entre 1951 y 2020
A1 Prieto Pérez, Álvaro Patricio
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Ciencias
K1 Olas de calor
K1 Medias climatológicas
K1 América
AB Heatwaves are increasing around the globe and have become a major threat to human health, natutalenvironments and even infrastructure and economy. Regions like Europe or Australia have plenty ofresearch in this area, but the same cannot be said in the case of the Americas. In this study we haveanalysed heatwaves and their related variables in the american continent between 1951 to 2020 todescribe them across all the territory, as well as for finding their trends and relate them to atmosphericconditions. Results have shown that near the equator the climatological means of the number ofheatwaves, length of the longest heatwave and heatwave days are larger than in other latitudes anddecrease the more we approach the poles. The climatological mean of the heatwave’s intensity hasan inverse pattern: the more we move away from the equator, the more intense heatwaves are. Thetrends have a similar pattern than the climatological means: for the number of heatwaves, lenght of thelongest heatwave and heatwave days the trends are more intense near the equator, but the heatwave’sintensity has an inverse pattern. Finally, we have studied the correlations between heatwaves and the 2m temperature, total precipitation and sea surface temperature. Results have shown that heatwaves arestrongly related between total precipitation, sea surface temperature and their respective anomalies,but not so much with the 2 m temperature.
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/49601
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/49601
LA spa
NO Departamento de Física Aplicada
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-nov-2024