Mediterranean climate and oceanography, and the periodic development of anoxic events (sapropels)

EJ Rohling, G Marino, KM Grant - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Mediterranean sapropels are layers with elevated organic carbon concentrations that
contrast with surrounding sediments, which are organic poor. Sapropels occur (quasi-) …

Precession and obliquity forcing of the freshwater budget over the Mediterranean

JHC Bosmans, SS Drijfhout, E Tuenter… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
There is strong proxy and model evidence of precession-and obliquity-induced changes in
the freshwater budget over the Mediterranean Sea and its borderlands, yet explanations for …

Holocene climate and cultural evolution in late prehistoric–early historic West Asia

M Staubwasser, H Weiss - Quaternary Research, 2006 - cambridge.org
The precipitation climatology and the underlying climate mechanisms of the eastern
Mediterranean, West Asia, and the Indian subcontinent are reviewed, with emphasis on …

[HTML][HTML] Climatology and dynamics of the summer Etesian winds over the eastern Mediterranean

E Tyrlis, J Lelieveld - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Climatology and Dynamics of the Summer Etesian Winds over the Eastern Mediterranean in:
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 70 Issue 11 (2013) Jump to Content Jump to Main …

Speleothem record of climatic changes in the northern Aegean region (Greece) from the Bronze Age to the collapse of the Roman Empire

D Psomiadis, E Dotsika, K Albanakis, B Ghaleb… - Palaeogeography …, 2018 - Elsevier
The climatic transitional zone of the northern Aegean Sea, potentially affected by different
weather systems in the past, was the center of developed human societies that experienced …

A model for archaeologically relevant Holocene climate impacts in the Aegean-Levantine region (easternmost Mediterranean)

EJ Rohling, G Marino, KM Grant, PA Mayewski… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
A repeating pattern of multi-centennial-scale Holocene climate events has been widely
(globally) documented, and they were termed Rapid Climate Change (RCC) events. Non …

Paleoclimate variability in the Mediterranean and Red Sea regions during the last 500,000 years: implications for hominin migrations

EJ Rohling, KM Grant, AP Roberts… - Current …, 2013 - journals.uchicago.edu
The Mediterranean–Red Sea region has been critical to dispersal of hominids and other
species between Africa and the rest of the world, and climate and sea level are thought to be …

[PDF][PDF] Extreme summer temperatures in the East Mediterranean-dynamical analysis.

T Harpaz, B Ziv, H Saaroni, E Beja - International Journal of …, 2014 - researchgate.net
This research analyses the scenarios that break the monotonic summer regime over the
East Mediterranean (EM). The study compares the five upper, median and lower percentiles …

Mediterranean climate: Past, present and future

P Lionello, F Giorgi, E Rohling, R Seager - Oceanography of the …, 2023 - Elsevier
This chapter provides an overview of the characteristics of the climate over the
Mediterranean region and of the processes that determine its evolution. It describes how …

Comprehensive analysis of the climate variability in the eastern Mediterranean. Part I: Map‐pattern classification

E Kostopoulou, PD Jones - … Journal of Climatology: A Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
This paper provides an extended study of the dominant daily circulation patterns governing
the climate variability in the eastern Mediterranean. The methodology adopted to determine …