The semi-enclosed nature of the Mediterranean Sea, together with its smaller inertia due to
the relative short residence time of its water masses, make it highly reactive to external …

In recent years, significant changes in precipitation regimes have been observed and these
manifest in socio economic and ecological problems especially in regions with increased …

Landslide susceptibility mapping is essential for a suitable land use managing and risk
assessment. In this work a GIS-based approach has been proposed to map landslide …

Flash floods are typical for the Mediterranean region, however they have been recurring at
increasing frequency over the past few decades especially over the Italian Peninsula. The …

The objective of this paper is to study the spatial and temporal variability of the Aridity Index
(AI) in Greece, per decade, during the 50-year period (1951–2000). Besides, the projected …

The objective of this study is to find out the spatial and temporal variability of the dry and wet
spells in Greece, during the period 1958–2007. The meteorological data with respect to …

The effects of climate change on landslide activity may have important environmental, socio-
economic, and political consequences. In the last decades, several short-term extreme …

Simultaneous measurements of airborne radionuclides 7 Be and 210 Pb, together with
aerosol mass load PM 10, have been routinely carried out at the Global WMO-GAW station …

Mediterranean island case studies of Calvià, Mallorca, and Malta are used to examine how
sustainable tourism policies do, do not, and should factor in climate change in order to …

Finding records of past catastrophic storm events is essential to evaluate the long term
climatic evolution in a given coastal area. This question has been addressed by the study of …