Discussing the role of tropical and subtropical moisture sources in cold  season extreme precipitation events in the Mediterranean region from a  climate change perspective

Krichak, S. O.; Feldstein, S. B.; Alpert, P.; Gualdi, S.; Scoccimarro, E.; Yano, J.-I.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-269-2016

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27 Jan 2016

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| 27 Jan 2016

Discussing the role of tropical and subtropical moisture sources in cold season extreme precipitation events in the Mediterranean region from a climate change perspective

S. O. Krichak, S. B. Feldstein, P. Alpert, S. Gualdi, E. Scoccimarro, and J.-I. Yano

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RC C1212: 'Review of the paper "Discussing the role of tropical and subtropical moisture sources in extreme precipitation events in the Mediterranean region from a climate change perspective"', Anonymous Referee #2, 05 Jul 2015
RC C1411: 'Review of “Discussing the role of tropical and subtropical moisture sources in extreme precipitation events in the Mediterranean region from a climate change perspective”', Anonymous Referee #1, 31 Jul 2015
AC C1790: 'Discussing the role of tropical and subtropical moisture sources in extreme precipitation events in the Mediterranean region from a climate change perspective', Simon O. Krichak, 22 Sep 2015

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This paper presents a review of a large number of research studies focused on the investigation of cold season extreme precipitation events (EPEs) in the Mediterranean region (MR) demonstrating an important role of anomalously intense transports of moist air from the tropical and subtropical Atlantic in the occurrence of the MR EPEs. The issue of a possible role of the recent past decline in Arctic sea ice in the climatology of the MR EPEs during the period is also addressed.