Sécheresse climatique au Maroc durant les dernières décennies

Abstract

Droughtwas always present in Morocco’s history. Its importance as a structural element of the country’s climate increased these last decades. Morocco lives the longest dry episode of its contemporary history, characterized by a reduction of the precipitations and a tendency to the rise in temperatures. The characterization of the climatic drought during the period 1961-2004 showed an increase in the droughts frequency, their severity and their spatial distribution. This drought dynamics is associated to an important warming up related to the global climate change that makes these dry episodes more and more difficult for different socioeconomic sectors.