Andrea Toreti

TL;DR: In this paper, a dedicated effort to synthesize existing scientific knowledge across disciplines is underway and aims to provide a better understanding of the combined risks posed in the Mediterranean Basin, where fewer systematic observations schemes and impact models are based.

TL;DR: In this article, a combination of up-to-date heat wave and drought indexes (the latter capturing both excessively dry and wet conditions) were used to characterize and attribute the effects of these climate extremes on wheat yield anomalies (at global and national scales) from 1980 to 2010.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new proxy-based, annually-resolved, spatial reconstruction of the European summer (June-August) temperature fields back to 755 CE based on Bayesian hierarchical modeling (BHM), together with estimates of European mean temperature variation since 138 BCE based on BHM and composite-plus-scaling (CPS).

TL;DR: In this article, a new data set of high-quality homogenized daily maximum and minimum summer air temperature series from 246 stations in the eastern Mediterranean region (including Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey) is developed and used to quantify changes in heat wave number, length and intensity between 1960 and 2006.

TL;DR: Kuglitsch et al. as mentioned in this paper used a homogenized daily maximum and minimum summer air temperature series from 246 stations in the eastern Mediterranean region (including Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey) to quantify changes in heat wave number, length and intensity between 1960 and 2006.