The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview
© Author(s) 2019. 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 articu...
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ftunivhullir:oai:hull-repository.worktribe.com:1512218 2024-09-15T18:23:35+00:00 The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview Bini, Monica Zanchetta, Giovanni Per?oiu, Aurel Cartier, Rosine Català, Albert Cacho, Isabel Dean, Jonathan R. Di Rita, Federico Drysdale, Russell N. 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 2019-03-27 https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/file/1512218/1/Published%20article https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/1512218 https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-555-2019 English eng European Geosciences Union https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/1512218 Climate of the Past Volume 15 Issue 2 Pagination 555-577 doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-555-2019 https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/file/1512218/1/Published%20article 1814-9324 doi:10.5194/cp-15-555-2019 openAccess Journal Article publishedVersion 2019 ftunivhullir https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-555-2019 2024-07-22T14:05:21Z © Author(s) 2019. 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 articulation 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 University of Hull: Repository@Hull Climate of the Past 15 2 555 577 |
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© Author(s) 2019. 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 articulation 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 Per?oiu, Aurel Cartier, Rosine Català, Albert Cacho, Isabel Dean, Jonathan R. Di Rita, Federico Drysdale, Russell N. 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 Per?oiu, Aurel Cartier, Rosine Català, Albert Cacho, Isabel Dean, Jonathan R. Di Rita, Federico Drysdale, Russell N. 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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Bini, Monica Zanchetta, Giovanni Per?oiu, Aurel Cartier, Rosine Català, Albert Cacho, Isabel Dean, Jonathan R. Di Rita, Federico Drysdale, Russell N. 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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