Based on a dense series of temperature data from 3685 observatories located in peninsular Spain and on the Balearic Islands, the patterns and trends of the annual and seasonal values of the maximum, minimum and daily temperature range for the 1952–2022 period are analysed. To this end, this study analyses anomalies for the 1961–1990 period, trends in different time windows, spatial variations, and the influence of altitude and...

Wildfire activity has decreased in the Valencia Region (Eastern Spain) in the last three decades in ignition and spread terms despite adverse climatological conditions caused by climate change, measured by the Fire Weather Index (FWI) in this study. We divided the study area into seven homogenous regions and split fires by cause to disaggregate the results, and to check for trends in these variables. The most relevant results...

The Fire Weather Index (FWI) is a widely used metric to estimate the wildfire risk based on climatological variables. As anthropogenic climate change is expected to increase wildfire risk by affecting the climate of the Mediterranean Iberian Peninsula, we assess the expected increase in wildfire risk during the past decades. For this purpose, we employ a dataset containing daily FWI values in a 0.25° × 0.25° grid for each day...

When considering deficit irrigation, the most resistant period to water stress in olive crops is during the pit hardening. However, the determination of this period and the impact that water stress has on its onset or duration have not been clearly established. The aim of this work is to describe the impact of water stress on three processes that determine fruit development: fruit growth, endocarp hardening, and oil accumulati...

A study on fog‐water collection potential at the Mediterranean Iberian Peninsula was carried out for the period 2003–2012. The area is denoted by a high population density, with fairly common water restrictions in certain periods during the year. Moreover, climate change projections point out a sharp drop in precipitation for this sector of the western Mediterranean Basin that would aggravate water problems. This work aims to...

Fog‐water collection has been widely analysed for its quantification and potential uses; however, there are few studies assessing the synoptic conditions and large‐scale teleconnection patterns that affect its occurrence. Focusing on the Mediterranean Iberian Peninsula, this work aims to analyse the synoptic patterns, both at surface level and 850 hPa geopotential height, that most likely to favour fog‐water collection, and to...