Mediterranean climate at multiple time scales since the Pliocene to the historical past
Conveners: Maria Triantafhyllou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Belen Martrat,(Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Spain)
This session considers the evolution of the Mediterranean climate since the establishment of its present paleogeography at the base of the Pliocene Epoch (ca. 5.33 million years ago). It will summarize the most important available evidence across different time scales (annual-to- millennial), highlighting the short-to-long term external forcings. It will explore past-present-future connections and internal dynamics that are relevant to current regional climate issues under rising greenhouse gas concentrations. This session will aim to facilitate data-model comparison from Deep Time to the recent Past, integrating the use of paleoclimate data with simulations and testing the capability of models to describe climate evolution at regional scale.