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 …

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 …

The influence of the large-scale atmospheric circulation at several tropospheric levels on
wet season precipitation over 292 sites across the Mediterranean area is assessed. A …

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 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 …

ABSTRACT The Mediterranean Basin covers more than 2 million square kilometres and is
surrounded by three continents: Africa, Asia and Europe. The Basin that is rich in biodiversity …

Semi-objective classification of daily 1200 UTC synoptic systems was carried out by a
discriminant-like analysis of the National Center for Environmental Prediction–National …

The spatio-temporal variability of drought is presented by evaluating homogeneously
distributed 250 station records from 1931 to 2010 for 80 years' duration in Turkey. The …

Connection between the large scale 500 hPa geopotential height fields and precipitaiton
over Greece during winter time The spatial distribution of the winter (December to February) …

Publisher Summary The Mediterranean climate is affected by several tropical and
subtropical systems as illustrated by some evidence presented in this chapter. These factors …