Mediterranean winter snowfall variability over the past millennium
Nazzareno Diodato
Met European Research Observatory, Benevento, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorUlf Büntgen
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Global Change Research Institute CAS and Masaryk University Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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Gianni Bellocchi
Met European Research Observatory, Benevento, Italy
UCA, INRA, VetAgro Sup, Unité Mixte de Recherche sur Écosystème Prairial (UREP), Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Gianni Bellocchi, Grassland Ecosystem Research Unit, French National Institute of Agricultural Research, 5 Chemin de Beaulieau, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorNazzareno Diodato
Met European Research Observatory, Benevento, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorUlf Büntgen
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Global Change Research Institute CAS and Masaryk University Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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Gianni Bellocchi
Met European Research Observatory, Benevento, Italy
UCA, INRA, VetAgro Sup, Unité Mixte de Recherche sur Écosystème Prairial (UREP), Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Gianni Bellocchi, Grassland Ecosystem Research Unit, French National Institute of Agricultural Research, 5 Chemin de Beaulieau, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Email: [email protected]
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The brevity of the instrumental record limits our understanding of snowfall variability and its directional patterns in the Mediterranean region. Here, we develop a 1,208-year-long (800–2017 CE) reconstruction of central Mediterranean snowfall variability based on documentary evidence from Italy. The record suggests that the recent reduction in Italian snowfall intensity is not unprecedented over the past millennium, since comparable patterns of low snowfall intensity also occurred during the Medieval Climate Anomaly. Increased snowfall during the Little Ice Age, however, was most likely associated with a shift of the Atlantic multi-decadal variability towards negative values, and this overall cold phase further coincided with increased volcanic activity. Our findings on natural snowfall variability over the central Mediterranean in the past millennium provide a unique winter proxy for validating output from climate model simulations.
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