Climate in the eastern Mediterranean, and adjacent regions, during the past 6000 years–A review

M Finné, K Holmgren, HS Sundqvist, E Weiberg… - Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
The eastern Mediterranean, with its long archaeological and historical records, provides a
unique opportunity to study human responses to climate variability. We review paleoclimate …

A review of 2000 years of paleoclimatic evidence in the Mediterranean

J Luterbacher, R García-Herrera, AR Allan… - The Climate of the …, 2012 - shs.hal.science
A review of 2000 years of paleoclimatic evidence in the Mediterranean - HAL-SHS -
Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société Accéder directement au contenu Documentation FR …

Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

ER Cook, R Seager, Y Kushnir, KR Briffa… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
Climate model projections suggest widespread drying in the Mediterranean Basin and
wetting in Fennoscandia in the coming decades largely as a consequence of greenhouse …

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 …

Modeling of groundwater level fluctuations using dendrochronology in alluvial aquifers

V Gholami, KW Chau, F Fadaee, J Torkaman… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Groundwater is the most important water resource in semi-arid and arid regions such as
Iran. It is necessary to study groundwater level fluctuations to manage disasters (such as …

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 …

Five hundred years of gridded high-resolution precipitation reconstructions over Europe and the connection to large-scale circulation

A Pauling, J Luterbacher, C Casty, H Wanner - Climate dynamics, 2006 - Springer
We present seasonal precipitation reconstructions for European land areas (30° W to 40°
E/30–71° N; given on a 0.5°× 0.5° resolved grid) covering the period 1500–1900 together …

[HTML][HTML] Palaeolimnological evidence for an east–west climate see-saw in the Mediterranean since AD 900

N Roberts, A Moreno, BL Valero-Garcés… - Global and Planetary …, 2012 - Elsevier
During the period of instrumental records, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) has strongly
influenced inter-annual precipitation variations in the western Mediterranean, while some …

Recent decline in precipitation and tree growth in the eastern Mediterranean

D Sarris, D Christodoulakis, C Körner - Global change biology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We present evidence of a recent drying in the eastern Mediterranean, based on weather and
tree‐ring data for Samos, an island of the eastern Aegean Sea. Rainfall declined rapidly …

ENSO influence on Europe during the last centuries

S Brönnimann, E Xoplaki, C Casty, A Pauling… - Climate Dynamics, 2007 - Springer
Abstract El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) affects climate not only in the Pacific region
and the tropics, but also in the North Atlantic-European area. Studies based on twentieth …