The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview

M Bini, G Zanchetta, A Perşoiu, R Cartier… - Climate of the …, 2019 - cp.copernicus.org
The Mediterranean region and the Levant have returned some of the clearest evidence of a
climatically dry period occurring around 4200 years ago. However, some regional evidence …

Natural and anthropogenic dynamics of the coastal environment in northwestern Corsica (western Mediterranean) over the past six millennia

F Di Rita, M Ghilardi, N Fagel, M Vacchi… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The present paper provides new insights into the climatic and anthropic factors that
influenced a 6000-year coastal evolution in northwestern Corsica, the third largest island of …

Persistent warm Mediterranean surface waters during the Roman period

G Margaritelli, I Cacho, A Català, M Barra… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Reconstruction of last millennia Sea Surface Temperature (SST) evolution is challenging
due to the difficulty retrieving good resolution marine records and to the several …

The Eurasian modern pollen database (EMPD), version 2

BAS Davis, M Chevalier, P Sommer… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
The Eurasian (née European) Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) was established in 2013 to
provide a public database of high-quality modern pollen surface samples to help support …

Atmospheric blocking induced by the strengthened Siberian High led to drying in west Asia during the 4.2 ka BP event–a hypothesis

A Perşoiu, M Ionita, H Weiss - Climate of the Past, 2019 - cp.copernicus.org
Causal explanations for the 4.2 ka BP event are based on the amalgamation of seasonal
and annual records of climate variability that was manifest across global regions dominated …

The Medieval climate anomaly in the Mediterranean region

S Lüning, L Schulte, S Garcés‐Pastor… - Paleoceanography …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) is a preindustrial phase of pronounced
natural climate variability with a core period from 1000 to 1200 CE. The paper presents a …

[HTML][HTML] Western Mediterranean hydro-climatic consequences of Holocene ice-rafted debris (Bond) events

C Zielhofer, A Köhler, S Mischke… - Climate of the …, 2019 - cp.copernicus.org
Gerard C. Bond established a Holocene series of North Atlantic ice-rafted debris events
based on quartz and haematite-stained grains recovered from subpolar North Atlantic …

Holocene forest dynamics in central and western Mediterranean: Periodicity, spatio-temporal patterns and climate influence

F Di Rita, WJ Fletcher, J Aranbarri, G Margaritelli… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
It is well-known that the Holocene exhibits a millennial-scale climate variability. However, its
periodicity, spatio-temporal patterns and underlying processes are not fully deciphered yet …

The 4.2 ka event in the vegetation record of the central Mediterranean

F Di Rita, D Magri - Climate of the Past, 2019 - cp.copernicus.org
In this paper, the variation in forest cover in the central Mediterranean region, reflected by
percentage changes in the arboreal pollen record, has been examined in relation to the 4.2 …

Vegetation dynamics in arid central Asia over the past two millennia linked to NAO variability and solar forcing

S Feng, X Liu, X Mao - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The role of NAO modes and solar activity, together with their potential relationship, in driving
hydroclimatic variability in arid central Asia over the past two millennia remain controversial …