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Efthymiadis, D., Goodess, C. M. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7462-4479 and Jones, P. D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5032-5493
(2011)
Trends in Mediterranean gridded temperature extremes and large-scale circulation influences.
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 11 (8).
pp. 2199-2214.
ISSN 1684-9981
Abstract
Two recently-available daily gridded datasets are used to investigate trends in Mediterranean temperature extremes since the mid-20th century. The underlying trends are found to be generally consistent with global trends of temperature and their extremes: cold extremes decrease and warm/hot extremes increase. This consistency is better manifested in the western part of the Mediterranean where changes are most pronounced since the mid-1970s. In the eastern part, a cooling is observed, with a near reversal in the last two decades. This inter-basin discrepancy is clearer in winter, while in summer changes are more uniform and the west-east difference is restricted to the rate of increase of warm/hot extremes, which is higher in central and eastern parts of the Mediterranean over recent decades. Linear regression and correlation analysis reveals some influence of major large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns on the occurrence of these extremes – both in terms of trend and interannual variability. These relationships are not, however, able to account for the most striking features of the observations – in particular the intensification of the increasing trend in warm/hot extremes, which is most evident over the last 15–20 yr in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climatic Research Unit Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Users 2731 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Aug 2011 12:58 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2024 09:02 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/34540 |
| DOI: | 10.5194/nhess-11-2199-2011 |
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