… to the action field   State: Extreme events State: Extreme events Source: Yury and Tanya / stock.adobe.com In Germany heavy rain is one of the extreme weather … phenomena which have a particularly strong potential of putting people’s lives and infrastructures at risk. Spatial and temporal variability of heavy rain, and the fact that such events are associated …

… changed meteorological conditions – this will entail an intensification of cloud- and precipitation-forming processes. Extreme events such as heavy rainfall and persistent rain might therefore increase. Given that such events occur seldom and with high variability, trends have so far not been statistically relevant. …

… also risen in the course of past decades (cf. Indicator KM-I-1 ). On the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts this has a positive effect on the duration of the potential … of October. Since the 1980s, the first potential bathing days have occurred earlier and earlier every year, while the last suitable days occur later and later, extending into autumn. Despite some considerable fluctuations from year …

… update on 28.11.2023 Climate changes relevant to the action field   State: Heat and Drought State: Heat and Drought Source: shokokoart / stock.adobe.com Germany is experiencing an increase in the frequency of hot and dry years. When high temperatures occur in tandem with negligible precipitation …

… three days per annum to a current mean of approximately ten hot days. Notwithstanding great variability of this index from year to year, this increase is backed up … in urban areas – case study Source: rh2010 / stock.adobe.com Owing to the heat island effect of large, contiguous built-up urban areas, the heat stress experienced by … significant in years with extraordinarily warm summers such as 2015, 2018 and 2019. For example, in 2018 the nationwide average was 20.4 hot days, whilst …

… 28.11.2023 Climate changes relevant to the action field   State: Air temperatures and fluctuations in weather patterns State: Air temperature and fluctuations in weather patterns Source: Volodymyr / stock.adobe.com The annual air temperature as an aggregated mean for Germany between 1881 and 2022 was determined statistically to have risen by 1.7 °C. Furthermore, in the …

… on 28.11.2023 Climate changes relevant to the action field   State: Precipitation and drought periods State: Precipitation and drought periods Source: maxbelchenko / stock.adobe.com Although the mean … of dry phases in summer. As far as heavy-rain events are concerned, high spatial and temporal variability make statistically backed trend statements difficult. …

… the entire period from 1881 to 2022 temperatures increased every decade by 0.12 °C, and since 1971 the warming rate of 0.38 °C per decade has resulted in making this … seas are getting warmer thus changing the ecosystem conditions for fish communities and all other sea life. The annual mean surface temperature of the North Sea has … result in herring spawning earlier in the western part of the Baltic Sea, and their larvae consequently needing external food earlier too. However, this food …