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Northern Hemisphere atmospheric pattern enhancing Eastern Mediterranean Transient-type events during the past 1000 years
Aleix Cortina-Guerra
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Environmental
Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Spanish Council for Scientific
Research (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Juan José Gomez-Navarro
Department of Physics, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Belen Martrat
Department of Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Environmental
Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Spanish Council for Scientific
Research (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Juan Pedro Montávez
Department of Physics, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Alessandro Incarbona
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, Università di
Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Joan O. Grimalt
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Environmental
Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Spanish Council for Scientific
Research (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Marie-Alexandrine Sicre
Sorbonne Universités (UPMC, Université Paris
06)-CNRS-IRD-MNHN, LOCEAN Laboratory, Paris, France
P. Graham Mortyn
Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
Department of Geography, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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During late 20th century a singular Mediterranean circulation episode called the Eastern Mediterranean Transient (EMT) event occurred. It involved changes on the seawater physical and biogeochemical properties, which can impact areas broadly. Here, using paleosimulations for the last 1000 years we found that the East Atlantic/Western Russian atmospheric mode was the main driver of the EMT-type events in the past, and enhancement of this mode was coetaneous with low solar insolation.
During late 20th century a singular Mediterranean circulation episode called the Eastern...
