Abstract The Middle East and southwest Asia are a region that is water stressed, societally
vulnerable, and prone to severe droughts. Large-scale climate variability, particularly La …

The precipitation climatology and the underlying climate mechanisms of the eastern
Mediterranean, West Asia, and the Indian subcontinent are reviewed, with emphasis on …

The Dead Sea, located along the boundary separating semiarid climate from arid climate, is
prone to flash flooding caused mainly by severe convection generating heavy precipitation …

Attempts are made to study the seasonal climatology of the Arabian Peninsula, including the
regional to station level information for Saudi Arabia for the period 1979–2009. The wet …

On the basis of a multi-proxy approach and a strategy combining lacustrine and marine
records along a north–south transect, data collected in the central Mediterranean within the …

Abstract The Active Red Sea Trough (ARST) is an infrequent weather phenomenon that is
associated with extreme precipitation, flash floods, and severe societal impacts in the Middle …

Flash floods cause some of the most severe natural disasters in Europe but Mediterranean
areas are especially vulnerable. They can cause devastating damage to property …

In this chapter, regional climate conditions are described in terms of the proper ties and
behavior of the atmospheric circulation over and around the Mediterranean region (MR) …

This review discusses published studies of heavy rainfall events over the Mediterranean
Basin, combining them in a more general picture of the dynamic and thermodynamic factors …

A new method for identifying high impact large‐scale wind and precipitation events in the
extended Mediterranean region is outlined and applied to the European Centre for Medium …