A review of 2000 years of paleoclimatic evidence in the mediterranean

Jürg Luterbacher; Ricardo García-Herrera; Sena Akcer-On; Rob Allan; Maria Carmen Alvarez-Castro; Gerardo Benito; Jonathan Booth; Ulf Büntgen; Namik Cagatay; Daniele Colombaroli; Basil Davis; Jan Esper; Thomas Felis; Dominik Fleitmann; David Frank; David Gallego; Elena Garcia-Bustamante; Ruediger Glaser; Fidel J. Gonzalez-Rouco; Hugues Goosse; Thorsten Kiefer; Mark G. Macklin; Sturt W. Manning; Paolo Montagna; Louise Newman; Mitchell J. Power; Volker Rath; Pedro Ribera; Dirk Riemann; Neil Roberts; Marie Alexandrine Sicre; Sergio Silenzi; Willy Tinner; P. Chronis Tzedakis; Blas Valero-Garcés; Gerard van der Schrier; Boris Vannière; Steffen Vogt; Heinz Wanner; Johannes P. Werner; Gail Willett; Megan H. Williams; Elena Xoplaki; Christos S. Zerefos; Eduardo Zorita

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-416042-2.00002-1

A review of 2000 years of paleoclimatic evidence in the mediterranean

Jürg Luterbacher, Ricardo García-Herrera, Sena Akcer-On, Rob Allan, Maria Carmen Alvarez-Castro, Gerardo Benito, Jonathan Booth, Ulf Büntgen, Namik Cagatay, Daniele Colombaroli, Basil Davis, Jan Esper, Thomas Felis, Dominik Fleitmann, David Frank, David Gallego, Elena Garcia-Bustamante, Ruediger Glaser, Fidel J. Gonzalez-Rouco, Hugues GoosseThorsten Kiefer, Mark G. Macklin, Sturt W. Manning, Paolo Montagna, Louise Newman, Mitchell J. Power, Volker Rath, Pedro Ribera, Dirk Riemann, Neil Roberts, Marie Alexandrine Sicre, Sergio Silenzi, Willy Tinner, P. Chronis Tzedakis, Blas Valero-Garcés, Gerard van der Schrier, Boris Vannière, Steffen Vogt, Heinz Wanner, Johannes P. Werner, Gail Willett, Megan H. Williams, Elena Xoplaki, Christos S. Zerefos, Eduardo Zorita

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Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Climate of the Mediterranean Region
Publisher	Elsevier Inc.
Pages	87-185
Number of pages	99
ISBN (Print)	9780124160422
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-416042-2.00002-1
State	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes

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Luterbacher, J., García-Herrera, R., Akcer-On, S., Allan, R., Alvarez-Castro, M. C., Benito, G., Booth, J., Büntgen, U., Cagatay, N., Colombaroli, D., Davis, B., Esper, J., Felis, T., Fleitmann, D., Frank, D., Gallego, D., Garcia-Bustamante, E., Glaser, R., Gonzalez-Rouco, F. J., ... Zorita, E. (2012). A review of 2000 years of paleoclimatic evidence in the mediterranean. In The Climate of the Mediterranean Region (pp. 87-185). Elsevier Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-416042-2.00002-1

Luterbacher, J, García-Herrera, R, Akcer-On, S, Allan, R, Alvarez-Castro, MC, Benito, G, Booth, J, Büntgen, U, Cagatay, N, Colombaroli, D, Davis, B, Esper, J, Felis, T, Fleitmann, D, Frank, D, Gallego, D, Garcia-Bustamante, E, Glaser, R, Gonzalez-Rouco, FJ, Goosse, H, Kiefer, T, Macklin, MG, Manning, SW, Montagna, P, Newman, L, Power, MJ, Rath, V, Ribera, P, Riemann, D, Roberts, N, Sicre, MA, Silenzi, S, Tinner, W, Tzedakis, PC, Valero-Garcés, B, van der Schrier, G, Vannière, B, Vogt, S, Wanner, H, Werner, JP, Willett, G, Williams, MH, Xoplaki, E, Zerefos, CS & Zorita, E 2012, A review of 2000 years of paleoclimatic evidence in the mediterranean. in The Climate of the Mediterranean Region. Elsevier Inc., pp. 87-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-416042-2.00002-1

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AU - Alvarez-Castro, Maria Carmen

AU - Benito, Gerardo

AU - Booth, Jonathan

AU - Büntgen, Ulf

AU - Cagatay, Namik

AU - Colombaroli, Daniele

AU - Davis, Basil

AU - Esper, Jan

AU - Felis, Thomas

AU - Fleitmann, Dominik

AU - Frank, David

AU - Gallego, David

AU - Garcia-Bustamante, Elena

AU - Glaser, Ruediger

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AU - Kiefer, Thorsten

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AU - Newman, Louise

AU - Power, Mitchell J.

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AU - Ribera, Pedro

AU - Riemann, Dirk

AU - Roberts, Neil

AU - Sicre, Marie Alexandrine

AU - Silenzi, Sergio

AU - Tinner, Willy

AU - Tzedakis, P. Chronis

AU - Valero-Garcés, Blas

AU - van der Schrier, Gerard

AU - Vannière, Boris

AU - Vogt, Steffen

AU - Wanner, Heinz

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N1 - Funding Information: Work on the ships’ log books was funded by a Mediterranean Climate Variability and Predictability (MedCLIVAR) Exchange Grant awarded to Maria del Carmen Alvarez-Castro (ref. EG/2175) and by the project “Caracterización del clima de la península ibérica durante elperiodo 1750–1850” funded by the Spanish “Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Medio Rural y Marino” under contract no. 200800050083542. We thank the SNSF (NCCR-Climate) and the EU project Millennium (017008) for funding parts of that work. T. Felis acknowledges funding by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through the DFG-Research Center/Cluster of Excellence “The Ocean in the Earth System” at the University of Bremen. S. Silenzi was supported by the VECTOR project funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research. P. Montagna acknowledges financial support from the Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship. The part on Vegetation, Land Use, and Fire History in Mediterranean Ecosystems was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF; grant nos. WT 3100A0-102272 and PP00P2-114886) and is a contribution to the ongoing work of the Global Palaeofire Working Group (GPWG) of the International Geosphere-Biosphere (IGBP) Cross-Project Initiative on Fire. The GPWG is supported by the University of Utah, Utah Museum of Natural History (UMNH), and the UK Natural Environment Research Council’s QUEST (Quantifying Uncertainty in the Earth System) program. Data compilation and analysis were supported by the UMNH (M.J.P.), and we thank Sandy Harrison and the QUEST-Deglaciation and QUEST-Desire project for GPWG funding support. Data compilation and site analysis have also been supported by the MEditerranean Fire Synthesis (MEFIS) program founded by the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Université de Franche-Comté (B.V.). Many thanks also to Warren Eastwood, Becky Turner, and Ann England for Nar pollen and microcharcoal data. We thank F. Joos (University of Bern) and Simon Tett (presently at the University of Edinburgh, and formerly at the UK Hadley Centre, where the simulations were conducted) for kindly providing the output of the CSM and HadCM3 models, respectively. H. Goosse is a Research Associate with the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgium) and is supported by the Belgian Federal Science Policy. J. Luterbacher, J. Werner, and E. Zorita also acknowledge support from the DFG Project PRIME1 and 2 (PRecipitation In the past Millennium in Europe; PRecipitation In past Millennia in Europe- extension back to Roman times, grant nos. LU1608/1-1, AOBJ: 568460; ZO -133/6-1; LU1608/1-2, ZO -133/6-2) within the Priority Program Integrierte Analyse zwischeneiszeitlicher Klimadynamik (INTERDYNAMIK). J. Luterbacher, E. Garcia-Bustamante, R. Glaser, S. Vogt, and D. Riemann also acknowledge support from the DFG Project, “Historical Climatology of the Middle East based on Arabic sources back to ad 800” (grant nos. GL 358/8-1 and LU 1608/2-1 AOBJ 575150). E. Xoplaki and J. Luterbacher acknowledge support by the EU Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) integrated project CIRCE (grant no. NO036961) and from the EU FP7 project Assessing Climate Impacts on the Quantity and quality of WAter (ACQWA; grant no. NO212250). G. Benito acknowledges funding by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (CICYT) projects GL2008-06474-CO2-01 and CGL2011-29176 on “Flood hazards in Mediterranean rivers in the context of climate variability and environmental change” and Action the bi-lateral Spanish-Portuguese commission PT2009-0162. The authors would like to thank the scientists who made all their data sets available. We thank our colleagues and data contributors to the Global Charcoal Database. We also thank Joel Guiot and Danny McCarroll for careful reviews and important input. Jessica Schermuly is acknowledged for editing the manuscript. We thank F. Babst for developing Figure 2.4 and I. Dorado Linan and T. Levanic for comments and discussion.

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