The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview
International audience The Mediterranean region and the Levant have returned some of the clearest evidence of a climatically dry period occurring around 4200 years ago. However, some regional evidence is controversial and contradictory, and issues remain regarding timing, progression, and regional a...
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[SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology Bini, Monica Zanchetta, Giovanni Perşoiu, Aurel Cartier, Rosine Catalá, Albert Cacho, Isabel Dean, Jonathan Di Rita, Federico Drysdale, Russell Finnè, Martin Isola, Ilaria Jalali, Bassem Lirer, Fabrizio Magri, Donatella Masi, Alessia Marks, Leszek Mercuri, Anna Maria Peyron, Odile Sadori, Laura Sicre, Marie-Alexandrine Welc, Fabian Zielhofer, Christoph Brisset, Elodie The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview |
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International audience The Mediterranean region and the Levant have returned some of the clearest evidence of a climatically dry period occurring around 4200 years ago. However, some regional evidence is controversial and contradictory, and issues remain regarding timing, progression, and regional ar-ticulation of this event. In this paper, we review the evidence from selected proxies (sea-surface temperature, precipitation , and temperature reconstructed from pollen, δ 18 O on speleothems, and δ 18 O on lacustrine carbonate) over the Mediterranean Basin to infer possible regional climate patterns during the interval between 4.3 and 3.8 ka. The values and limitations of these proxies are discussed, and their potential for furnishing information on seasonality is also explored. Despite the chronological uncertainties, which are the main limitations for disentangling details of the climatic conditions , the data suggest that winter over the Mediterranean involved drier conditions, in addition to already dry summers. However, some exceptions to this prevail-where wetter conditions seem to have persisted-suggesting regional heterogeneity in climate patterns. Temperature data, even if sparse, also suggest a cooling anomaly, even if this is not uniform. The most common paradigm to interpret the precipitation regime in the Mediterranean-a North Atlantic Oscillation-like pattern-is not completely satisfactory to interpret the selected data. |
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Bini, Monica Zanchetta, Giovanni Perşoiu, Aurel Cartier, Rosine Catalá, Albert Cacho, Isabel Dean, Jonathan Di Rita, Federico Drysdale, Russell Finnè, Martin Isola, Ilaria Jalali, Bassem Lirer, Fabrizio Magri, Donatella Masi, Alessia Marks, Leszek Mercuri, Anna Maria Peyron, Odile Sadori, Laura Sicre, Marie-Alexandrine Welc, Fabian Zielhofer, Christoph Brisset, Elodie |
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Bini, Monica Zanchetta, Giovanni Perşoiu, Aurel Cartier, Rosine Catalá, Albert Cacho, Isabel Dean, Jonathan Di Rita, Federico Drysdale, Russell Finnè, Martin Isola, Ilaria Jalali, Bassem Lirer, Fabrizio Magri, Donatella Masi, Alessia Marks, Leszek Mercuri, Anna Maria Peyron, Odile Sadori, Laura Sicre, Marie-Alexandrine Welc, Fabian Zielhofer, Christoph Brisset, Elodie |
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The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview |
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The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview |
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The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview |
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The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview |
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The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview |
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4.2 ka bp event in the mediterranean region: an overview |
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ftmuseumnhn:oai:HAL:insu-02104912v1 2024-05-19T07:45:09+00:00 The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview Bini, Monica Zanchetta, Giovanni Perşoiu, Aurel Cartier, Rosine Catalá, Albert Cacho, Isabel Dean, Jonathan Di Rita, Federico Drysdale, Russell Finnè, Martin Isola, Ilaria Jalali, Bassem Lirer, Fabrizio Magri, Donatella Masi, Alessia Marks, Leszek Mercuri, Anna Maria Peyron, Odile Sadori, Laura Sicre, Marie-Alexandrine Welc, Fabian Zielhofer, Christoph Brisset, Elodie Dipartimiento di Scienze della Terra University of Pisa - Università di Pisa Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale (IMBE) Avignon Université (AU)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut de recherche pour le développement IRD : UMR237-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l’Oceà Barcelona Universitat de Barcelona (UB) University of Hull United Kingdom Dipartimento di biologia ambientale Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" = Sapienza University Rome (UNIROMA) University of Melbourne Uppsala Universitet Uppsala Stockholm University Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia – Sezione di Pisa (INGV) Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité) Istituto Ambiente Marino Costiero National Research Council of Italy Laboratorio di Palinologia e Paleobotanica Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM) Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement IRD : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Variabilité de l'Océan et de la Glace de mer (VOG) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University (UKSW) Leipzig University / Universität Leipzig 2019 https://insu.hal.science/insu-02104912 https://insu.hal.science/insu-02104912/document https://insu.hal.science/insu-02104912/file/Bini%20et%20al.,%202019.pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-555-2019 en eng HAL CCSD European Geosciences Union (EGU) info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.5194/cp-15-555-2019 insu-02104912 https://insu.hal.science/insu-02104912 https://insu.hal.science/insu-02104912/document https://insu.hal.science/insu-02104912/file/Bini%20et%20al.,%202019.pdf doi:10.5194/cp-15-555-2019 WOS: 000462675700001 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1814-9324 EISSN: 1814-9332 Climate of the Past https://insu.hal.science/insu-02104912 Climate of the Past, 2019, 15 (2), pp.555-577. ⟨10.5194/cp-15-555-2019⟩ [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2019 ftmuseumnhn https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-555-2019 2024-05-01T23:51:54Z International audience The Mediterranean region and the Levant have returned some of the clearest evidence of a climatically dry period occurring around 4200 years ago. However, some regional evidence is controversial and contradictory, and issues remain regarding timing, progression, and regional ar-ticulation of this event. In this paper, we review the evidence from selected proxies (sea-surface temperature, precipitation , and temperature reconstructed from pollen, δ 18 O on speleothems, and δ 18 O on lacustrine carbonate) over the Mediterranean Basin to infer possible regional climate patterns during the interval between 4.3 and 3.8 ka. The values and limitations of these proxies are discussed, and their potential for furnishing information on seasonality is also explored. Despite the chronological uncertainties, which are the main limitations for disentangling details of the climatic conditions , the data suggest that winter over the Mediterranean involved drier conditions, in addition to already dry summers. However, some exceptions to this prevail-where wetter conditions seem to have persisted-suggesting regional heterogeneity in climate patterns. Temperature data, even if sparse, also suggest a cooling anomaly, even if this is not uniform. The most common paradigm to interpret the precipitation regime in the Mediterranean-a North Atlantic Oscillation-like pattern-is not completely satisfactory to interpret the selected data. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHM): HAL Climate of the Past 15 2 555 577 |