Mediterranean Climate Variability and Predictability (MedCLIVAR)

Summary

MedCLIVAR aims to coordinate and promote research on the Mediterranean climate. The main goals include reconstruction of its past evolution, description of patterns and mechanisms characterizing its space-time variability, and identification of the forcing parameters responsible for the observed changes. Emphasis is put on identification of trends present in observational records as well as on climate predictions under future emission scenarios. The study of the occurrence of extreme events -closely related to climate variability and change- and of climate change impacts is also included in MedCLIVAR.