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Mediterranean climate variability /

This multi-authored book provides an updated description of climate variability in the Mediterranean basin, focusing on decadal and centennial time scales and on the results available on the impact of future emission scenarios at regional scale. The authors describs both local physical processes res...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lionello, Piero, Malanotte-Rizzoli, Paola, 1946-, Boscolo, R. (Roberta)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier, 2006.
Colección:Developments in earth & environmental sciences ; 4.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Mediterranean climate : an overview of the main characteristics and issues
  • Mediterranean climate variability over the last centuries : a review
  • Relations between climate variability in the Mediterranean region and the tropics : ENSO, South Asian and African monsoons, hurricanes and Saharan dust
  • Relations between variability in the Mediterranean region and mid-latitude variability
  • Changes in the oceanography of the Mediterranean Sea and their link to climate variability
  • The Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea as connected systems
  • Cyclones in the Mediterranean region : climatology and effects on the environment
  • Regional atmospheric, marine processes and climate modelling
  • The Mediterranean climate change under global warming.