Overview
- Unique book on impacts of the North Atlantic Oscillation in a target region like the Mediterranean
- Complete overview of the impacts in different economic sectors and environmental systems
- Provides some key issues to understand the possible impacts of climate change processes in the Mediterranean region
Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 46)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The Mediterranean basin represents one of the most important “hot spots” of climate change in the world, with recent trends towards a hotter and drier climate being related to changes in atmospheric circulation patterns. Such changes can have significant impacts in the climate of this region but also on the natural environment and several socioeconomic activities. Among these patterns, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is one of the main forcing factors in the region with impact on extreme events such as droughts, severe precipitations or heat and cold waves, the availability of water resources, the ecological dynamics, the quality and quantity of crops, the migration and welfare of animal populations, the fisheries dynamics, the triggering of landslides and the air pollution and human health, among others.
The aim of Hydrological, Socioeconomic and Ecological Impacts of the North Atlantic Oscillation in the Mediterranean Region, is to serve as an updated reference text that covers the wide range of evidences on the NAO impacts in the Mediterranean regions and from a multidisciplinary perspective.
This volume constitutes a unique document to present the state of the art of the numerous studies undertaken on the hydrological, socioeconomic and ecological impact of the NAO, collecting the expertise of researchers from several complementary earth science fields (geography, hydrology, remote-sensing, climatology, agriculture, energy), but that have been lacking a common ground.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hydrological, Socioeconomic and Ecological Impacts of the North Atlantic Oscillation in the Mediterranean Region
Editors: Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano, Ricardo M. Trigo
Series Title: Advances in Global Change Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1372-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1371-0Published: 09 June 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3648-1Published: 03 August 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1372-7Published: 17 June 2011
Series ISSN: 1574-0919
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 236
Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Physical Geography, Ecology, Geophysics and Environmental Physics