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Snow drought and its importance for runoff in the context of changes in climatic and snow characteristics
Hlavatý, Vojtěch ; Jeníček, Michal (advisor) ; Nedělčev, Ondřej (referee)
Snow drought, defined as a lack of snow accumulation, is one of the consequences of increasing air temperature, which has a considerable impact on the runoff generation as it provides a substantial part of water supplies in the warm season. However, the attention to snow drought has been paid mainly to North America. Therefore, this work aimed to evaluate the current state of research on this topic and to analyze data from the Churáňov station in the Šumava Mountains. Long-term trends in climatic and snow characteristics in the period 1966-2017 were described using linear regression and Mann-Kendall test and relationships between them were examined by correlation coefficients. Consequently, the occurrences of snow drought were classified using different approaches. According to the results, the main cause of interannual changes in snow storage in the Šumava Mountains was the increasing mean cold season air temperature, causing a decrease in snowfall and thus a reduction in the maximum snow water equivalent, which can be intensified by a decrease in cold season precipitation. This was also indicated by the frequency of different types of snow drought, especially an increase in warm snow-poor seasons, which, considering the predicted climate change, highlighted the importance of this phenomenon....
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