Climate Change Influence on the Occurrence of Extreme Dry-Wet Periods in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The air temperature in Bosnia and Herzegovina is increasing (0.3 -0.6 °C per decade), while rainfall events are more extreme.Additionally, there is an increased variability in weather conditions across all seasons, marked by rapid shifts from extremely cold to warm weather, as well as transitions from periods of exceptionally high rainfall to exceedingly dry periods.Droughts and floods pose the most significant risks.However, Bosnia and Herzegovina faces a lack of adequate information and analyses of extreme climate events, especially regarding their timing, intensity, magnitude, duration, and spatial extent.Therefore, this study aims to address these questions using the precise drought index SPEI.The identified wet years were: 1969,