Independent Aridity and Drought Pieces of Evidence Based on Meteorological Data 
and Tree Ring Data in Southeast Banat, Vojvodina, Serbia

Gavrilov, Milivoj B.; An, Wenling; Xu, Chenxi; Radakovic, Milica G.; Hao, Qingzhen; Yang, Fan; Guo, Zhengtang; Peric, Zoran; Gavrilov, Gavrilo; Markovic, Slobodan B.

doi:10.3390/atmos10100586

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Independent Aridity and Drought Pieces of Evidence Based on Meteorological Data and Tree Ring Data in Southeast Banat, Vojvodina, Serbia

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Climate Geochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Max Planck Society;

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Gavrilov, M. B., An, W., Xu, C., Radakovic, M. G., Hao, Q., Yang, F., et al. (2019). Independent Aridity and Drought Pieces of Evidence Based on Meteorological Data and Tree Ring Data in Southeast Banat, Vojvodina, Serbia. Atmosphere, 10(10): 586. doi:10.3390/atmos10100586.

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In this study, aridity data and tree ring data were collected in Northern Serbia, in Southeast (SE) Banat, a subregion within Vojvodina, and Vojvodina at large. They were each investigated independently. The De Martonne Aridity Index and the Forestry Aridity Index are derived from examining the relationship between precipitation and surface air temperature data sets sourced from seven meteorological stations in SE Banat, and from 10 meteorological stations located in Vojvodina as a whole. Vojvodina is a large territory and used as the control area, for the period 1949-2017. The Palmer Drought Severity Index was derived for the period 1927-2016, for both SE Banat and the totality of Vojvodina. The results of the Tree Ring Width Index were obtained from samples collected in or around the villages of Vlajkovac and Suara, both located in SE Banat, for the period 1927-2017. These tree ring records were compared with three previous aridity and drought indices, and the meteorological data on the surface air temperature and the precipitation, with the objective being to evaluate the response of tree growth to climate dynamics in the SE Banat subregion. It was noted that the significant positive temperature trends recorded in both areas were too insufficient to trigger any trends in aridity or the Tree Ring Width Index, as neither displayed any change. Instead, it appears that these climatic parameters only changed in response to the precipitation trend, which remained unchanged during the investigated period, rather than in response to the temperature trend. It appears that the forest vegetation in the investigated areas was not affected significantly by climate change in response to the dominant temperature increase.