Autor(es):
Camuffo, Dario 
; Bertolin, Chiara ; Valle, Antonio della ; ClaudioCocheo, Claudio ; Diodato, Nazzareno ; Enzi, Silvia ; Sghedoni, Mirca ; Barriendos, Mariano ; Rodriguez, Roberto ; Dominguez-Castro, Fernando ; Garnier, Emmanuel ; Alcoforado, Maria Joao ; Nunes, Maria Fatima
Data: 2011
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/4251
Origem: Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora
Assunto(s): History of Climate; Climate Change; scientific culture; old regime
Descrição
Global Warming (GW) is expected to affect the Mediterranean area with three major
challenges, i.e. increase in temperature, decrease in precipitation and sea level rise that will
likely submerge the coastal areas, including Venice. Aim of this Chapter is to discuss the
expected changes under the light of long-term observations. Documentary proxies and
instrumental readings in Portugal, Spain, France and Italy have been recovered and
analysed. These observations cover the last five centuries from the Little Ice Age (LIA) to the
present-day GW.
This Chapter is based on documentary proxies and instrumental series collected over the
Mediterranean area, i.e. Portugal, Spain, France and Italy within the EU funded
ADVICE, IMPROVE, MILLENNIUM, and Climate for Culture projects. A huge effort was made to
seek for written sources and original logs with early and less recent instrumental readings.
The next steps were to recover, correct, adjust to modern standards, homogenize and
analyse the earliest data and most of the longest European series. The detailed study of the
history of the series (e.g. instrument type, calibration, observational methodology, sampling
time, exposure, location) and the recovery of any related metadata were fundamental to
apply and perform the due corrections to the series.
