Identifying the Climatic Conditions in Iraq by Tracking Down Cooling Events in the North Atlantic Ocean in the Period 3000–0 BC

• Published in: Miscellanea Geographica
• Main Author: Muslih Khamis D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2014
• Subjects: iraq; north atlantic oscillation; drift ice indices; drought intervals; eastern mediterranean; envir; geo; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2014-0016; https://doaj.org/article/26103c83cf8b4e2b9d1f119d6ea1e145

North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), monthly averages of precipitation in the Baghdad station, and petrologic tracer proxy data for ocean properties in the North Atlantic (NA) have been used in an attempt to identify climatic conditions in Iraq during the study period. The study showed that contemporary changes in precipitation in Iraq are associated with NAO, as a negative relationship is found between them. Moreover, the study found that there is a strong negative correlation between NAOI and SST in NA, where drift ice indices explain between 33–36% of the NAOI variability.