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February 8, 2024International Journal of ClimatologyOpen Access

Tropical nights in the Mediterranean: A spatiotemporal analysis of trends from 1950 to 2022

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DYDoğukan Doğu YavaşlıAhi Evran UniversityEEEcmel ErlatEge University

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Comparative reanalysis reveals expanding tropical night seasons across the Mediterranean basin, highlighting the compounding impacts of rapid urbanization.

Key Points

  • Frequency of tropical nights has significantly risen across the region, while seasonal onset arrived roughly 17.3 days earlier per decade from 1950 to 2022.
  • Analysis of ERA5-Land reanalysis data indicates that seasonal conclusion was delayed by 17.1 days per decade, prolonging extreme temperatures in cities.
  • Highlights how anthropogenic climate change and ongoing urbanization jointly accelerate nocturnal warming, worsening local heat exposure over time.

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Yavaşlı et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e7b3d4b6db64358770dd0chttps://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8394
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