The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region : an overview
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 eve...
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ftuppsalauniv:oai:DiVA.org:uu-381577 2023-05-15T17:33:52+02:00 The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region : an overview Bini, Monica Zanchetta, Giovanni Persoiu, Aurel Cartier, Rosine Catala, Albert Cacho, Isabel Dean, Jonathan R. Di Rita, Federico Drysdale, Russell N. Finné, 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 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-381577 https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-555-2019 eng eng Uppsala universitet, Antikens kultur och samhällsliv Univ Pisa, Dipartimento Sci Terra, Pisa, Italy Romanian Acad, Emil Racovita Inst Speleol, Cluj Napoca, Romania Lund Univ, Dept Geol, Quaternary Sci, Lund, Sweden Univ Barcelona, Fac Geol, GRC Geociencies Marines, Dept Dinam Terra & Ocea, Barcelona, Spain Univ Hull, Sch Environm Sci, Kingston Upon Hull, N Humberside, England Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento Biol Ambientale, Rome, Italy Univ Melbourne, Sch Geog, Melbourne, Vic, Australia Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys Geog, Stockholm, Sweden Ist Nazl Geofis & Vulcanol, Sez Pisa, Pisa, Italy Univ Paris 06, Sorbonne Univ, LOCEAN Lab, CNRS,IRD,MNHN,UPMC, Paris, France CNR Napoli, Ist Sci Marine ISMAR, Naples, Italy Univ Warsaw, Fac Geol, Warsaw, Poland Univ Reggio Emilia & Modena, Dipartimento Sci Vita, Modena, Italy Univ Montpellier, Inst Sci Evolut ISEM, Montpellier, France Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski Univ, Inst Archaeol, Warsaw, Poland Univ Leipzig, Chair Phys Geog, Leipzig, Germany Inst Catala Paleoecol Humana & Evolucio Social, IPHES, Tarragona, Spain;Univ Rovira & Virgili, Area Prehist, Tarragona, Spain COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH Climate of the Past, 1814-9324, 2019, 15:2, s. 555-577 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-381577 doi:10.5194/cp-15-555-2019 ISI:000462675700001 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Climate Research Klimatforskning Article, review/survey info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2019 ftuppsalauniv https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-555-2019 2023-02-23T21:49:47Z 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, delta O-18 on speleothems, and delta O-18 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 Uppsala University: Publications (DiVA) Climate of the Past 15 2 555 577 |
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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, delta O-18 on speleothems, and delta O-18 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 Persoiu, Aurel Cartier, Rosine Catala, Albert Cacho, Isabel Dean, Jonathan R. Di Rita, Federico Drysdale, Russell N. Finné, 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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