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AN: OS52E-09    [PDF]
TI: The MedWater Project : an Integrated Mediterranean Climate Research Project
AU: * Crepon, M R
EM: crepon@lodyc.jussieu.fr
AF: IPSL/LODYC, UPMC, 4 place Jussieu, Paris, 75005 France
AU: Li, L
EM: Li@lmd.jussieu.fr
AF: IPSL/LMD, UPMC, 4 place Jussieu, Paris, 75005 France
AU: Somot, S
EM: samuel.somot@meteo.fr
AF: Meteo-France, 42 Avenue G. Coriolis, Toulouse, 31057 France
AB: The MedWater project aims at studying the mechanisms responsible for the evolution of the Mediterranean basin climate with a focus on the hydrological cycle and water budget for periods ranging from a season up to a few decades. The water budget is the most sensitive variable affecting the environment and the economy. Emphasis will thus be given on the amount of rainfall, the river discharge, the land vegetation, the associated desertification, the thermohaline circulation of the Mediterranean sea and their relationships and interactions. The associated marine ecosytem variability will be also investigated. Efforts of the project will be concentrated on the dynamics of the climate, which is the most relevant point to explain the regional climate variability. MedWater will run several regional climate models in order to apply a multi-model ensemble strategy to tentatively estimate the confidence of the regional model results. Some preliminary results are presented.
DE: 1620 Climate dynamics (3309)
DE: 1635 Oceans (4203)
DE: 3309 Climatology (1620)
DE: 4243 Marginal and semienclosed seas
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2004 Ocean Sciences Meeting