Journal article

Publication year: 2010

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters

Volume number: 37

ISSN: 0094-8276

eISSN: 1944-8007

Open access status: Green

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GL041841

Publisher: Wiley

Abstract: 
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. Daily temperature homogeneity analyses suggest that many instrumental measurements in the 1960s are warm-biased, correcting for these biases regionally averaged heat wave trends are up to 8% higher. We find significant changes across the western Balkans, southwestern and western Turkey, and along the southern Black Sea coastline. Since the 1960s, the mean heat wave intensity, heat wave length and heat wave number across the eastern Mediterranean region have increased by a factor of 7.6 +/- 1.3, 7.5 +/- 1.3 and 6.2 +/- 1.1, respectively. These findings suggest that the heat wave increase in this region is higher than previously reported. Citation: Kuglitsch, F. G., A. Toreti, E. Xoplaki, P. M. Della-Marta, C. S. Zerefos, M. Turkes, and J. Luterbacher (2010), Heat wave changes in the eastern Mediterranean since 1960, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L04802, doi: 10.1029/2009GL041841.

Harvard Citation style: Kuglitsch, F., Toreti, A., Xoplaki, E., Della-Marta, P., Zerefos, C., Turkes, M., et al. (2010) Heat wave changes in the eastern Mediterranean since 1960, Geophysical Research Letters, 37, Article L04802. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GL041841

APA Citation style: Kuglitsch, F., Toreti, A., Xoplaki, E., Della-Marta, P., Zerefos, C., Turkes, M., & Luterbacher, J. (2010). Heat wave changes in the eastern Mediterranean since 1960. Geophysical Research Letters. 37, Article L04802. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GL041841