A study of the Politència University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona concludes that Spain “could move from a Mediterranean climate to a steppe climate” due to climate change, the university reported in a statement on Thursday.
The work Spain: towards a drier and warmer climate? (1), presented this Thursday at the International Congress of Meteorology of the European Meteorological Society (EMS) in Barcelona, analyses the evolution of temperatures and rainfall from 1971 to 2022 throughout Spain and makes a projection of the peninsular-Balearic climate until 2050.
Researchers from the Centre for Land Policy and Valuations (CPSV) from the UPC address the problem of structural climate change by explaining the relationship between the process of global warming, which primarily affects the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, and the parallel process towards a drier climate.
“Very marked” change
Research predicts that if the warming trend experienced in recent years continues, rainfall will decrease by 14% to 20% by 2050 compared to current levels.
Global warming would cause a “very marked” change in the Spanish climate by 2050, moving from a typical Mediterranean climate to a drier and warmer, steppe-like and even desert-like one.
For this reason, he warns that global warming would cause a “very marked” change in the Spanish climate by 2050, moving from a typical Mediterranean climate to a drier and warmer, steppe-like and even desert-like one.
In the case of Barcelona, research predicts that it will go from a climate of mild, dry winters and hot summers to a steppe and semi-arid climate.
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