Climate change and weather extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

G Zittis, M Almazroui, P Alpert, P Ciais… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Observation‐based and modeling studies have identified the Eastern Mediterranean and
Middle East (EMME) region as a prominent climate change hotspot. While several initiatives …

Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes

HJ Fowler, G Lenderink, AF Prein, S Westra… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Short-duration (1–3 h) rainfall extremes can cause serious damage to societies
through rapidly develo** (flash) flooding and are determined by complex, multifaceted …

Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios

Y Tramblay, A Koutroulis, L Samaniego… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Droughts can have strong environmental and socio-economic impacts in the Mediterranean
region, in particular for countries relying on rain-fed agricultural production, but also in areas …

Climate change and rainfall intensity–duration–frequency curves: Overview of science and guidelines for adaptation

JL Martel, FP Brissette, P Lucas-Picher… - Journal of Hydrologic …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
One of the most important impacts of a future warmer climate is the projected increase in the
frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall events. This increasing trend in extreme rainfall is …

Large increase in global storm runoff extremes driven by climate and anthropogenic changes

J Yin, P Gentine, S Zhou, SC Sullivan, R Wang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Weather extremes have widespread harmful impacts on ecosystems and human
communities with more deaths and economic losses from flash floods than any other severe …

[HTML][HTML] Revisiting future extreme precipitation trends in the Mediterranean

G Zittis, A Bruggeman, J Lelieveld - Weather and Climate Extremes, 2021 - Elsevier
Global warming is anticipated to intensify the hydrological cycle. However, this is neither
expected to be globally uniform nor is the relationship between temperature increase and …

Future increases in extreme precipitation exceed observed scaling rates

J Bao, SC Sherwood, LV Alexander… - Nature Climate Change, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Models and physical reasoning predict that extreme precipitation will increase in a
warmer climate due to increased atmospheric humidity,,. Observational tests using …

Recent heatwaves as a prelude to climate extremes in the western Mediterranean region

E Tejedor, G Benito, R Serrano-Notivoli… - npj Climate and …, 2024 - nature.com
The 2022 and 2023 western Mediterranean summer temperatures exceeded millennial
natural variability, reaching unprecedented anomalies of+ 3.6° C and+ 2.9° C respectively …

[HTML][HTML] Super-Clausius–Clapeyron scaling of extreme hourly convective precipitation and its relation to large-scale atmospheric conditions

G Lenderink, R Barbero, JM Loriaux… - Journal of …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Super-Clausius–Clapeyron Scaling of Extreme Hourly Convective Precipitation and Its Relation
to Large-Scale Atmospheric Conditions in: Journal of Climate Volume 30 Issue 15 (2017) Jump …