caa a22 4500 605472335 CHVBK 20210128100337.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00382-015-2545-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00382-015-2545-x Large scale moisture flux characteristics of the mediterranean basin and their relationships with drier and wetter climate conditions [Elektronische Daten] [Sinan Şahin, Murat Türkeş, Sheng-Hung Wang, David Hannah, Warren Eastwood] Large scale moisture flux analysis was carried out for the Mediterranean Basin in order to increase our understanding of the larger scale atmospheric controls on moisture flux convergence that are related to drier and wetter conditions. The seasonal moisture budget (precipitation minus evaporation) was calculated using the National Centers for Environmental Prediction—National Center for Atmospheric Research reanalysis data for the period 1949-2012. Results of the analysis show that the displacements of prevailing atmospheric action centres located over the subtropical mid-east Atlantic (i.e. Azores high) and the north-east Atlantic (i.e. sub-polar or Iceland low) to the north and to south, respectively, generally determine the wet or dry conditions over the Mediterranean Basin. In winter, the eddy fluxes originating from the mid-Atlantic propagate over Europe providing wet conditions in western and central Europe. The contribution of eddies to the moisture budget weaken in summer for the Mediterranean Basin, because of weaker and less frequent frontal activities in general. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 Atmospheric moisture budget nationallicence Convergence nationallicence Wet and dry, drought nationallicence Teleconnections nationallicence Mediterranean basin nationallicence Şahin Sinan Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Çorlu Engineering, Namik Kemal University, 59860, Çorlu, Tekirdag, Turkey aut Türkeş Murat Affiliated Faculty at the Department of Statistics, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey aut Wang Sheng-Hung Polar Meteorology Group, Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA aut Hannah David School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, B15 2TT, Birmingham, UK aut Eastwood Warren School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, B15 2TT, Birmingham, UK aut Climate Dynamics Springer Berlin Heidelberg 45/11-12(2015-12-01), 3381-3401 0930-7575 45:11-12<3381 2015 45 382 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-015-2545-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-015-2545-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Şahin Sinan Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Çorlu Engineering, Namik Kemal University, 59860, Çorlu, Tekirdag, Turkey aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Türkeş Murat Affiliated Faculty at the Department of Statistics, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wang Sheng-Hung Polar Meteorology Group, Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hannah David School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, B15 2TT, Birmingham, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Eastwood Warren School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, B15 2TT, Birmingham, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Climate Dynamics Springer Berlin Heidelberg 45/11-12(2015-12-01), 3381-3401 0930-7575 45:11-12<3381 2015 45 382