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 …

El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is arguably the most important global climate pattern.
While the effects in the Pacific–North American sector and the tropical regions are relatively …

Publisher Summary The Mediterranean Region has many morphologic, geographical,
historical, and societal characteristics, which make its climate scientifically interesting. The …

Earlier reports indicated some specific isolated regions exhibiting a paradoxical increase of
extreme rainfall in spite of decrease in the totals. Here, we conduct a coherent study of the …

Extreme phases of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon have been
blamed for precipitation anomalies in many areas of the world. In some areas the probability …

Abstract The Arabian Peninsula has experienced pronounced interannual to decadal
variability in dust activity, including an abrupt regime shift around 2006 from an inactive dust …

Abstract Changes in streamflow of the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers are shown to be
associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), a large‐scale mode of natural climate …

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 …

Using observational datasets and atmospheric reanalyses, we show that interannual
variability of rainfall in the Euro‐Mediterranean sector is significantly influenced by ENSO in …

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 …