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In recent decades, the frequency and intensity of daily precipitation extremes have suffered from an increment in many parts of the world, including Central and Eastern Europe. Wet spells are defined by the number of consecutive rainy days with different thresholds. The identification of wet spells and their trends in the rainfall time is very important for many sectors, such as agriculture, ecology, hydrology and water resources. Wet spells can lead to extreme events and cause floods and other disasters. In this study, we will attempt to characterise global precipitation in the context of wet spells and associated precipitation depth of wet spells in the Danube River Basin area using daily precipitation data, as well as analysing different approaches to identifying wet spells. The ten most intense wet spells were detected, and the most intense, which occurred on 23 September 1996, was studied in depth in terms of precipitation and associated anomalies, the synoptic situation and the anomalous transport of moisture using a Lagrangian approach. The existence of a marked west-east dipole in the field of sea level pressure between the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern Mediterranean leads to the anomalous moisture transport from the Northern Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea, where a higher available amount of moisture existed, and subsequently penetrated within the low positioned over the Danube River Basin. In addition, an Atmospheric River was also responsible for the wet conditions in the Danube River Basin. The combination of all these factors was responsible for the extreme precipitation linked with the wet spell.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/w9080615","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,21]],"date-time":"2017-08-21T04:12:17Z","timestamp":1503288737000},"page":"615","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Wet Spells and Associated Moisture Sources Anomalies across Danube River Basin"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Danica","family":"Ciric","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"EPhysLab (Environmental Physics Laboratory), Facultade de Ciencias, Universidade de Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8984-0959","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Raquel","family":"Nieto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"EPhysLab (Environmental Physics Laboratory), Facultade de Ciencias, Universidade de Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3129-7233","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alexandre","family":"Ramos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto Dom Luiz, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0432-8842","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anita","family":"Drumond","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"EPhysLab (Environmental Physics Laboratory), Facultade de Ciencias, Universidade de Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain"}]},{"given":"Luis","family":"Gimeno","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"EPhysLab (Environmental Physics Laboratory), Facultade de Ciencias, Universidade de Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"273","DOI":"10.1007\/s10584-006-6338-4","article-title":"Estimating the Impact of Global Change on Flood and Drought Risks in Europe: A Continental, Integrated Analysis","volume":"75","author":"Lehner","year":"2006","journal-title":"Chlimatic. 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