@article{fdi:010079404,
  title = {{R}ecent observed country-wide climate trends in {M}orocco},
  author = {{D}riouech, {F}. and {S}tafi, {H}. and {K}houakhi, {A}. and {M}outia, {S}. and {B}adi, {W}. and {E}l{R}haz, {K}. and {C}hehbouni, {A}bdelghani},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{I}n this study, we evaluate trends in precipitation and temperature and their related extreme indices in {M}orocco based on a set of {N}ational {C}limate {M}onitoring {P}roducts defined the by the commission for climatology of the {WMO}. {W}e use daily precipitation, maximum and minimum temperature data from 30 meteorological stations distributed throughout the country and covering the period from 1960 to 2016. {S}tatistically significant increasing trends in warm temperature events and a tendency towards decreasing cold extremes at both daytime and night are depicted across the country consistent with the generalized observed global warming. {W}e found that the daily temperature in {M}orocco has risen with higher rates than the global scale. {T}he depicted trend of 0.33 degrees {C} per decade corresponds to a warming of approximately 1.1 degrees {C} for the period 1984-2016. {T}he annual mean precipitation and the standardized drought index show less spatially consistent tendencies despite the predominance of negative trends. {C}onsidering the effect of the warming in the analysis of drought evolution using the {S}tandardized {P}recipitation-{E}vapotranspiration {I}ndex, we detected statistically significant trends towards dryer conditions in different regions of the northern half of the country. {A}nalysis of the relationship between precipitation in {M}orocco and the large-scale atmospheric circulation in the {A}tlantic area confirmed the effects of the {N}orth {A}tlantic {O}scillation, especially for the winter season (with low influence at the annual scale). {M}oreover, we found that the {NAO} exerts significant influence on winter extreme temperatures during night time. {H}owever, such correlations alone may not explain the depicted significant generalized warming trends and the drying evolution.},
  keywords = {climate change ; extremes ; {M}orocco ; {N}orth {A}frica ; observed trends ; {MAROC}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{I}nternational {J}ournal of {C}limatology},
  volume = {41},
  numero = {suppl. 1},
  pages = {{E}855--{E}874},
  ISSN = {0899-8418},
  year = {2021},
  DOI = {10.1002/joc.6734},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010079404},
}