Mediterranean Climate

The long version of the title is "Collaborative Research: Past and Future Drought Variability in the Mediterranean Basin". A main objective of this study is to develop new tree-ring chronologies from North Africa and apply them to study the spatio-temporal variability of drought

• Develop tree-ring chronologies from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya
• Build networks of tree-ring chronologies over the Medierranean using previously developed and new chronologies
• Apply the networks to study the large-scale spatiotemporal climate variations impacting the Middle East
• Identify relationships between regional drought, radiative forcing, and atmosphere-ocean dynamics
• Generate reconstructed time series of streamflow and other variables of use to resource managers