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Tropical belt expansion and its impacts on climate variability in the Mediterranean from 1980 to 2022
Mohamed Darrag
Geodynamics Department, National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics-NRIAG, 11421 Helwan, Cairo, Egypt
School of Geomatics and Aerospace Information, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454003, China
School of Artificial Intelligence, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China
Andrés Calabia
Department of Physics and Mathematics, University of Alcala, 28801, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
Aalaa Samy
Geomagnetic and Geoelectric Department, National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics-NRIAG, 11421 Helwan, Cairo, Egypt
Ivan Radevski
Institute of Geography, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, North Macedonia
Ali M. Radwan
Geodynamics Department, National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics-NRIAG, 11421 Helwan, Cairo, Egypt
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This study examines the variability of climatic parameters over the Mediterranean and their teleconnection with tropical belt expansion. The results exhibit a dominant upward trend of tropopause height, with maximum trends in the eastern Mediterranean region, which shows more poleward occurrences of tropical edge latitudes. The analysis confirms the link between climatic parameter variability and tropical edge latitude occurrences.
This study examines the variability of climatic parameters over the Mediterranean and their...
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