Mediterranean water resources in a global change scenario

JM García-Ruiz, JI López-Moreno… - Earth-Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
Mediterranean areas of both southern Europe and North Africa are subject to dramatic
changes that will affect the sustainability, quantity, quality, and management of water …

A review of drought in the Middle East and southwest Asia

M Barlow, B Zaitchik, S Paz, E Black, J Evans… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Middle East and southwest Asia are a region that is water stressed, societally
vulnerable, and prone to severe droughts. Large-scale climate variability, particularly La …

Spatiotemporal drought variability in the Mediterranean over the last 900 years

BI Cook, KJ Anchukaitis, R Touchan… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Recent Mediterranean droughts have highlighted concerns that climate change may be
contributing to observed drying trends, but natural climate variability in the region is still …

The Mediterranean climate: an overview of the main characteristics and issues

P Lionello, P Malanotte-Rizzoli, R Boscolo… - Developments in earth …, 2006 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary The Mediterranean Region has many morphologic, geographical,
historical, and societal characteristics, which make its climate scientifically interesting. The …

Climatic trends to extremes employing regional modeling and statistical interpretation over the E. Mediterranean

P Alpert, SO Krichak, H Shafir, D Haim… - Global and Planetary …, 2008 - Elsevier
Results of regional climate modeling performed at the International Centre for Theoretical
Physics, Trieste, Italy, are analyzed for the E. Mediterranean region. It is found that the …

Cyclones in the Mediterranean region: climatology and effects on the environment

P Lionello, J Bhend, A Buzzi, PM Della-Marta… - Developments in earth …, 2006 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter describes the evolution of research on cyclones in the
Mediterranean region and their role on climate. The dynamics responsible for the formation …

Spatio-temporal changes of the climatic water balance in Romania as a response to precipitation and reference evapotranspiration trends during 1961–2013

R Prăvălie, A Piticar, B Roșca, L Sfîcă, G Bandoc… - Catena, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in precipitation (P), evapotranspiration (ET) and, implicitly, in the climatic
water balance (CWB), are imminent effects of climate warming. However, changes in the …

Nonstationary modeling of a long record of rainfall and temperature over Rome

G Villarini, JA Smith, F Napolitano - Advances in Water Resources, 2010 - Elsevier
A long record (1862–2004) of seasonal rainfall and temperature from the Rome observatory
of Collegio Romano are modeled in a nonstationary framework by means of the Generalized …

Climatic regulation of the Black Sea hydro-meteorological and ecological properties at interannual-to-decadal time scales

T Oguz, JW Dippner, Z Kaymaz - Journal of Marine Systems, 2006 - Elsevier
An examination of a wide spectrum of hydro-meteorological and biogeochemical records in
the Black Sea from the previous century possesses a robust climatic signature at interannual …

The East Atlantic/West Russia (EA/WR) teleconnection in the North Atlantic: climate impact and relation to Rossby wave propagation

YK Lim - Climate dynamics, 2015 - Springer
Large-scale winter teleconnection of the East Atlantic/West Russia (EA/WR) over the Atlantic
and surrounding regions is examined in order to quantify its impacts on temperature and …