Gaining a holistic understanding of extreme weather, from its physical drivers to its impacts
on society and ecosystems, is key to supporting future risk reduction and preparedness …

The sedimentary record of the Dead Sea provides an exceptional high-resolution archive of
past climate changes in the drought-sensitive eastern Mediterranean-Levant, a key region …

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 …

Attempts are made to study the seasonal climatology of the Arabian Peninsula, including the
regional to station level information for Saudi Arabia for the period 1979–2009. The wet …

HyMeX: A 10-Year Multidisciplinary Program on the Mediterranean Water Cycle in: Bulletin of
the American Meteorological Society Volume 95 Issue 7 (2014) Jump to Content Jump to Main …

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 …

This study examines the extent to which the floods in the Negev Desert, an area that
constitutes the southern half of Israel, are not the outcome of purely local weather conditions …

Abstract The Active Red Sea Trough (ARST) is an infrequent weather phenomenon that is
associated with extreme precipitation, flash floods, and severe societal impacts in the Middle …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the evolution of research on cyclones in the
Mediterranean region and their role on climate. The dynamics responsible for the formation …

Summary¶ The role of the two main European low-frequency oscillations–the East
Atlantic/West Russian (EA/WR) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), in controlling the …