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-) …

A review of drought in the Middle East and southwest Asia

M Barlow, B Zaitchik, S Paz, E Black, J Evans… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Strongly increasing heat extremes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in the 21st century

J Lelieveld, Y Proestos, P Hadjinicolaou, M Tanarhte… - Climatic Change, 2016 - Springer
The ensemble results of CMIP5 climate models that applied the RCP4. 5 and RCP8. 5
scenarios have been used to investigate climate change and temperature extremes in the …

[HTML][HTML] Local mechanisms for global daytime, nighttime, and compound heatwaves

S Wu, M Luo, R Zhao, J Li, P Sun, Z Liu… - npj Climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
Heatwaves impose serious impacts on ecosystems, human health, agriculture, and energy
consumption. Previous studies have classified heatwaves into independent daytime …

[HTML][HTML] More frequent, persistent, and deadly heat waves in the 21st century over the Eastern Mediterranean

M Wedler, JG Pinto, A Hochman - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Heat waves are extreme events characterized by sweltering weather over an extended
period. Skillful projections of heat waves and their impacts on human mortality can help …

The Mediterranean climate: an overview of the main characteristics and issues

P Lionello, P Malanotte-Rizzoli, R Boscolo… - Developments in earth …, 2006 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary The Mediterranean Region has many morphologic, geographical,
historical, and societal characteristics, which make its climate scientifically interesting. The …

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 …

Climate in the eastern Mediterranean, and adjacent regions, during the past 6000 years–A review

M Finné, K Holmgren, HS Sundqvist, E Weiberg… - Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
The eastern Mediterranean, with its long archaeological and historical records, provides a
unique opportunity to study human responses to climate variability. We review paleoclimate …

Orbital-and sub-orbital-scale climate impacts on vegetation of the western Mediterranean basin over the last 48,000 yr

WJ Fletcher, MFS Goñi - Quaternary Research, 2008 - cambridge.org
High-resolution pollen analysis of Alborán Sea core MD95-2043 provides a 48-ka
continuous vegetation record that can be directly correlated with sea surface and deep …

Holocene hydro-climatic variability in the Mediterranean: A synthetic multi-proxy reconstruction

M Finné, J Woodbridge, I Labuhn… - The …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Here we identify and analyze proxy data interpreted to reflect hydro-climatic variability over
the last 10,000 years from the Mediterranean region to (1) outline millennial and multi …