Hydrological, Socioeconomic and Ecological Impacts of the North Atlantic Oscillation in the Mediterranean Region
The Mediterranean basin represents one of the most important “hot spots” of climate change in the world, with recent trends towards a hotter and drier climate being related to changes in atmospheric circulation patterns. Such changes can have significant
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ADVANCES IN GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH VOLUME 46
Editor-in-Chief Martin Beniston, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Editorial Advisory Board B. Allen-Diaz, Department ESPM-Ecosystem Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. R.S. Bradley, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. W. Cramer, Earth System Analysis, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany. H.F. Diaz, Climate Diagnostics Center, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA. S. Erkman, Institute for communication and Analysis of Science and Technology–ICAST, Geneva, Switzerland. R. Garcia Herrera, Facultad de Fisicas, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain. M. Lal, Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. U. Luterbacher, The Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. I. Noble, CRC for Greenhouse Accounting and Research School of Biological Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. L. Tessier, Institut Mediterranéen d’Ecologie et Paléoécologie, Marseille, France. F. Toth, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria. M.M. Verstraete, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ec Joint Research Centre, Ispra (VA), Italy.
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Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano · Ricardo M. Trigo Editors
Hydrological, Socioeconomic and Ecological Impacts of the North Atlantic Oscillation in the Mediterranean Region
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Editors Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Pyrenean Institute of Ecology Avda. Montañana 1005 50059 Zaragoza Spain [email protected]
Ricardo M. Trigo Campo Grande Faculdade de Ciencias Instituto Dom Luiz, Universidade de Lisboa Edificio C8 Piso 3 1749-016 Lisbon Portugal [email protected]
ISSN 1574-0919 ISBN 978-94-007-1371-0 e-ISBN 978-94-007-1372-7 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1372-7 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011929639 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano and Ricardo M. Trigo
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Variability and Changes in the North Atlantic Oscillation Index . . . . Tim J. Osborn
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The NAO Impact on Droughts in the Mediterranean Region . . . . . . Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano, Juan I. López-Moreno, Jorge Lorenzo-Lacruz, Ahmed El Kenawy, Cesar Azorin-Molina, Enrique Morán-Tejeda, Edmond P
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