Regional climate variability and its impacts in the Mediterranean area
By: edited by A. Mellouki and A.R. Ravishankara
Contributors: Mellouki, A.; Ravishankara, A. R. (Akkiheb Ramaiah), 1949-; NATO Public Diplomacy Division
Series: NATO science series -- v. 79
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781402064272; 9781402064289
Description: "In an age when climate change is of key international concern, this work is both timely and important. The articles collected here are the result of a NATO workshop which brought together an extraordinary number of scientists. The attention is focused on the Mediterranean area which, like others around the globe, is facing its own particular climate stresses due to the chemical, biological and land characteristics of the region. Water shortages coupled with air pollution create unique stresses, due to the area's location and emissions. In North Africa, the problems associated with the seasonal distribution of water, leading to chronic shortages, is exacerbated by air pollution due to emissions in the region and those transported from its global neighbors. This volume details the findings of experts from North Africa and Mediterranean Europe, and in particular describes the influence of chemical emissions and climate transformation. It also looks to the future, addressing the problems associated with the growth of multiple stresses in the region, brought about by human activity and the rapid advance of industrialization."--Publisher.
Notes: "Published in cooperation with NATO Public Diplomacy Division."

"Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Regional Climate Variability and its Impacts in the Mediterranean Area, Marrakech, Morocco, 1 September, 2006"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Electronic resource. Berlin : Springer, 2008.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: 1. Climate and its Variability: Global and Regional Perspective; title: Long-range Transport of Pollutants Above the Eastern Mediterranean: Implications for Air Quality and Regional Climate / N. Mihalopoulos; title: African dust: its large-scale transport over the Atlantic Ocean and its impact on the Mediterranean region / J.M. Prospero; title: Radiative and Physiological Effects of Increased CO2, How does this interaction affect Climate in the Mediterranean Region? / L. Bounoua; title: Climate altering trace gases in Mediterranean area: Trends and source allocation / P. Bonsoni ... [et al.]; title: Key processes for dust emissions and their modeling / G. Bergametti, B. Marticorena, B. Laurent; title: 2. Modelling of the Global and Regional Phenomena; title: Climate/Water-cycle feedbacks in the Mediterranean: the role of land-use changes and the propagation of perturbations at the regional and global scale / M.M. Millan; title: Aerosols direct radiative forcing on Djougou (Northern Benin) during the AMMA dry season experiment / M. Malle ... [et al.]; title: 3. Climate and Regional Air Quality; title: Impact of changing climate and emissions on surface ozone distributions and evolution / H. Tanimoto ... [et al.]; title: Short and long-term transport of crustal and anthropogenic inorganic components of coarse and fine aerosols over Beirut, Lebanon / N.A. Saliba ... [et al.]; title: 4. Details of Chemical and Aerosols Processes; title: Aerosols in global models - focus on Europe / M. Kanakidou; title: Measurements of ozone, Black Carbon and particle size distributions along a Mediterranean cruise track during the period: October 2005-October 2006 / K. Velchev ... [et al.]; title: Concentration and chemical composition of PM2.5 and PM 10- 2.5 in the north-eastern Mediterranean / N. Kubilay, M. Kocak, N. Mihalopoulos; title: Non-methane volatile organic compound measurements in the city centre of Wroclaw, Poland / A. Niedojadlo ... [et al.]; title: Non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC) variability in the eastern Mediterranean / C. Arsene, A. Bougiatioti, N. Mihalopoulos; title: Representation of chemical detail in atmospheric models / M.J. Pilling; title: Photoenhanced uptake of NO2 on mineral dust / C. George ... [et al.]; title: Gas phase processes relevant to the Mediterranean: Some new and important topics / I. Barnes, I. Bejan; title: 5. Other presentations; title: Climate change and its impacts in Morocco / M.-S. Karrouk; title: The effect of climate changes on the disposal facility of natural occurring radioactive materials in Egypt / M. Abdel Geleel Mohamed; title: Analysis of down looking GPS occultation simulated data using least squares and abel inversions / A. El-Kutb Mousa, T. Tsuda; title: Presentation of MADEPODIM project / A. Azzi.