The last 30-year thermohaline variability in the ... - Medclivar

Why the Mediterranean Sea?????
• The Mediterranean region has a long observational record of past
climate with both instrumental and proxy data revealing a variety variety
of
time and space scales of variability that demonstrate the complexity complexity
of the Mediterranean Climate System.
• The Mediterranean is considered, as a “miniature miniature ocean” ocean due to
analogies to the Ocean as far as the dynamical processes is
concerned. Many processes which are fundamental to the general
circulation of the world ocean also occur within the Mediterranean,
Mediterranean,
either identically or analogously.
• The Mediterranean Sea responds rapidly to external forcing.
• The Mediterranean as a semi-enclosed semi enclosed almost isolated mid-latitude mid latitude
oceanic basin surrounded by three nearby continents, Europe, Asia Asia
and Africa, is under the influence of large atmospheric systems and
their variability.
• Moreover, due to its location it is also profoundly naturally
influenced by the nearby continents, the neighboring Atlantic Ocean Ocean
and Black Sea.
Tel Aviv, ISRAEL
MedCLIVAR workshop
19-20 19 20 September 2011