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Ana Arahuetes, María Hernández and Antonio M. Rico
The Spanish Mediterranean region has been affected by several factors over the years (climatic conditions of aridity, high water demands, rapid and intense urban and population growth, climate change), that have generated a negative water balance whereby...
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María José Pérez-Palazón, Rafael Pimentel and María José Polo
Snow constitutes a key component of the water cycle, which is directly affected by changes in climate. Mountainous regions, especially those located in semiarid environments, are highly vulnerable to shifts from snowfall to rainfall. This study evaluates...
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Paolo Cristofanelli, Piero Di Carlo, Eleonora Aruffo, Francesco Apadula, Mariantonia Bencardino, Francesco D?Amore, Paolo Bonasoni and Davide Putero
The Mediterranean basin is considered a global hot-spot region for climate change and air quality, especially concerning summer-time ozone (O3). Previous investigations indicated that the Mediterranean basin is a preferred region for stratosphere-to-trop...
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Rafael Pimentel, Cristina Aguilar, Javier Herrero, María José Pérez-Palazón and María José Polo
Albedo plays an important role in snow evolution modeling quantifying the amount of solar radiation absorbed and reflected by the snowpack, especially in mid-latitude regions with semiarid conditions. Satellite remote sensing is the most extensive techni...
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Simone Maria Piacentini and Rudy Rossetto
Water-related green infrastructures (WrGIs), also known as blue infrastructures, and sustainable drainage systems (SuDSs) offer services such as stormwater runoff management, water purification, water storage at the intersection of the built environment,...
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Naixia Mou, Haonan Ren, Yunhao Zheng, Jinhai Chen, Jiqiang Niu, Tengfei Yang, Lingxian Zhang and Feng Liu
Maritime traffic can reflect the diverse and complex relations between countries and regions, such as economic trade and geopolitics. Based on the AIS (Automatic Identification System) trajectory data of ships, this study constructs the Maritime Silk Roa...
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Gloria Polinesi, Maria Cristina Recchioni, Rosario Turco, Luca Salvati, Kostas Rontos, Jesús Rodrigo-Comino and Federico Benassi
Density-dependent population growth regulates long-term urban expansion and shapes distinctive socioeconomic trends. Despite a marked heterogeneity in the spatial distribution of the resident population, Mediterranean European countries are considered mo...
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A. Cardil Forradellas,D. Molina Terrén
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Aim of study: Large wildland fires (LWF) are major disturbance processes affecting many ecosystems each year. In last decades, socio-economic changes have contributed to major changes in land uses. This study assess trends in number, burned area and aver...
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Elena Chatzopoulou, Márcio Carocho, Francesco Di Gioia and Spyridon A. Petropoulos
The Mediterranean diet (MD) concept as currently known describes the dietary patterns that were followed in specific regions of the area in the 1950s and 1960s. The broad recognition of its positive effects on the longevity of Mediterranean populations a...
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Matthew J. Deitch, Michele J. Sapundjieff and Shane T. Feirer
The Mediterranean climate is principally characterized by warm, dry summers and cool, wet winters. However, there are large variations in precipitation dynamics in regions with this climate type. We examined the variability of precipitation within and am...
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Matthew J. Deitch, Michele J. Sapundjieff, Shane T. Feirer
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The Mediterranean climate is principally characterized by warm, dry summers and cool, wet winters. However, there are large variations in precipitation dynamics in regions with this climate type. We examined the variability of precipitation within and am...
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Eleftherios Sdoukopoulos, Pinar Kose, Ayelet Gal-Tzur, Mohamed Mezghani, ... Lambros Mitropoulos
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Improving urban mobility and reaching the goal of sustainability is a key priority for the European Union. To this end, substantial efforts have been undertaken in several regions within the European context regarding the investigation and successful imp...
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Santiago Reyna,Sergi Garcia-Barreda
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Aim of study: In recent decades the cultivation of the black truffle Tuber melanosporum has expanded across all the Mediterranean-climate regions, but also to other regions outside the European standard for the species. We aim to describe the current ext...
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Giuseppe Pulighe, Flavio Lupia, Huajin Chen and Hailong Yin
The consequences of climate change on food security in arid and semi-arid regions can be serious. Understanding climate change impacts on water balance is critical to assess future crop performance and develop sustainable adaptation strategies. This pape...
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Filippo Bussotti and Martina Pollastrini
Climate change and extreme drought and heat events impact the Mediterranean evergreen sclerophyllous vegetation in South Europe, especially in Iberian and Italian peninsula, where widespread crown defoliation and dieback have been observed since the 90s ...
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Green roofs are important infrastructures to address the effects of climate change in urban areas. However, most studies and applications have been done in cooler and wetter regions of the northern hemisphere. Climate change will lead to more extreme wea...
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Ricardo Cruz de Carvalho, Zulema Varela, Teresa Afonso do Paço and Cristina Branquinho
Green roofs are important infrastructures to address the effects of climate change in urban areas. However, most studies and applications have been done in cooler and wetter regions of the northern hemisphere. Climate change will lead to more extreme wea...
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Charles M. Balagizi and Marcello Liotta
The processes of isotope fractionation in the hydrological cycle naturally occur during vapor formation, vapor condensation, and moisture transportation. These processes are therefore dependent on local and regional surface and atmospheric physical featu...
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Danica Ciric, Raquel Nieto, Lucia Losada, Anita Drumond and Luis Gimeno
Moisture transport from its sources to surrounding continents is one of the most relevant topics in hydrology, and its role in extreme events is crucial for understanding several processes such as intense precipitation and flooding. In this study, we con...
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Rogert Sorí, Raquel Nieto, Anita Drumond and Luis Gimeno
The Niger River basin (NRB) is located in the important climatic region of the African Sahel. In this study we use the Lagrangian tridimensional model FLEXPART v9.0 to identify and characterise the moisture sources for the NRB. This method allows the int...
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