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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 responsible for these variability - such as changes in the surface properties and land use- and globalprocesses - such as changes in the large scale atmospheric circulation associated to global warming, NAO, tropical monsoon and ENSO. Regional climate change issues are also addressed.
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DEVELOPMENTS IN EARTH & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 4 MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE VARIABILITY VOLUME 1 GEOSCIENCES, ENVIRONMENT AND MAN by H. Chamley VOLUME 2 MEDICAL GEOLOGY EFFECTS OF GEOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS ON HUMAN HEALTH by M.M. Komatina VOLUME 3 OIL POLLUTION AND ITS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT IN THE ARABIAN GULF REGION by M. Al-Azab, W. El-Shorbagy and S. Al-Ghais Developments in Earth & Environmental Sciences, 4 MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE VARIABILITY Edited by P. LIONELLO University of Lecce, Italy P. MALANOTTE-RIZZOLI MIT, Cambridge, MA 02319, USA R. BOSCOLO Clivar, International Project Office, Southampton, UK Amsterdam – Boston – Heidelberg – London – New York – Oxford – Paris San Diego – San Francisco – Singapore – Sydney – Tokyo ELSEVIER B.V. Radarweg 29 P.O. Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands ELSEVIER Inc. 525 B Street, Suite 1900 San Diego, CA 92101- 4495 USA ELSEVIER Ltd. The Boulevard, Langford Lane Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB UK ELSEVIER Ltd. 84 Theobalds Road London WC1X 8RR UK ß 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This work is protected under copyright by Elsevier B.V., and the following terms and conditions a