Climate Variability in the Mediterranean Region (Second Edition)
A special issue of Climate (ISSN 2225-1154). This special issue belongs to the section "Climate Dynamics and Modelling".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 805
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Interests: climate change; water resources planning; groundwater; land–atmosphere interaction; sustainable agriculture; urban ecological design; carbon cycle monitoring; renewable energy resource assessment; probabilistic forecasting; data assimilation; model uncertainty assessment
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Dear Colleagues,
Due to the overwhelming support and interest in the previous Special Issue (SI), we are introducing a second edition of “Climate Variability in the Mediterranean Region”. We would like to thank all of the authors and co-authors who contributed to the success of the first edition of this SI.
The Mediterranean is a region with rugged topography, with dominantly winter precipitation alongside summer aridity, unique biodiversity, and a long human history. The landscape has been shaped by pronounced climate variability over timescales from seasons to millennia. Currently, the region is a climate change hotspot and is experiencing challenges ranging from drought and fire to intense floods and water quality concerns. Understanding climate variability and its impacts requires the integration of observational (in situ and remote sensing), simulation, and statistical methods. This Special Issue welcomes submissions across disciplines including archaeology and paleoclimatology, meteorology, the modelling of climate variability and change, hydrologic and geomorphologic aspects, biology and ecology, the social sciences, and urban studies. We are particularly seeking contributions that provide fresh perspectives, apply novel tools to regional problems, and set climate variability and change in broader contexts.
Dr. Nir Y. Krakauer
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Africa
- aridity
- Asia
- climate variability and change
- climate–society nexus
- Europe
- hydrology
- land cover and land-use change
- teleconnections
- urban climate
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