ArticleScience advances2023
Why the 2022 Po River drought is the worst in the past two centuries.
Article in Science advances, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Rivers under stress: geochemical changes along a rural-urban gradient during extreme hydrological events (Greve River, Italy).Environmental geochemistry and health · 2026Article
- Network dynamics reveal drought synchronization hubs in the Po River Basin.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The AIDA 1 km resolution crop-specific rainfed and irrigated areas and green and blue water demands for Italy.Scientific data · 2025Article
- 30-years (1991-2021) Snow Water Equivalent Dataset in the Po River District, Italy.Scientific data · 2025Article
- The overlooked impacts of freshwater scarcity on oceans as evidenced by the Mediterranean Sea.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Changes in the net primary production of ecosystems across Western Europe from 2015 to 2022 in response to historic drought events.Carbon balance and management · 2024Article
- Use of the SNOWED Dataset for Sentinel-2 Remote Sensing of Water Bodies: The Case of the Po River.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Phytoplankton dynamics in a shellfish farming lagoon in a deltaic system threatened by ongoing climate change.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
The causes of recent hydrological droughts and their future evolution under a changing climate are still poorly understood. Banking on a 216-year river flow time series at the Po River outlet, we show that the 2022 hydrological drought is the worst event (30% lower than the second worst, with a six-century return period), part of an increasing trend in severe drought occurrence. The decline in summer river flows (-4.14 cubic meters per second per year), which is more relevant than the precipitation decline, is attributed to a combination of changes in the precipitation regime, resulting in a decline of snow fraction (-0.6% per year) and snowmelt (-0.18 millimeters per day per year), and to increasing evaporation rate (+0.013 cubic kilometers per year) and irrigated areas (100% increment from 1900). Our study presents a compelling case where the hydrological impact of climate change is exacerbated by local changes in hydrologic seasonality and water use.
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