@misc{10481/75681,
year = {2022},
month = {5},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/75681},
abstract = {The Iberian Peninsula is located at the intersection between the subtropical and temperate climate
zones and the paleoclimate records from this region are key to elucidate the varying humidity and
changing dominance of atmospheric circulation patterns in the Mediterranean-North African region
in the past. Here we present a quantitative hydroclimate reconstruction for the last ca. 200 kyr from
southern Iberian Peninsula based on pollen data from the Padul lake sediment record. We use the
newly developed Scale-normalized Significant Zero crossing (SnSiZer) method to detect not only the
statistically significant precipitation changes but also to estimate the relative magnitude of these
oscillations in our reconstruction. We identify six statistically significant main humid phases, termed
West Mediterranean Humid Periods (WMHP 1–6). These humid periods correlate with other West/
Central Mediterranean paleohydrological records, suggesting that similar climatic factors affected
different areas of the Mediterranean. In addition, the WMPHs are roughly coeval with the African
Humid Periods (AHPs) during high seasonality, suggesting the same North Atlantic ocean-atmospheric
dynamics and orbital forcing as main drivers of both areas. In contrast, during low seasonality periods,
the West Mediterranean still appears to be affected by the westerlies and the local Mediterranean
rainfall systems with moderate-to-high precipitation, whereas West Africa was characterized by
droughts.},
organization = {Academy of Finland (GRASS)	1316702},
organization = {European Research Council (YMPACT)	788616},
organization = {Spanish Government	CGL2013-47038-R	
CGL2015-69160-R	
CGL2017-85415-R},
organization = {Junta de Andalucia
European Commission	P-20-00059	
B-RNM-144-UGR18},
organization = {Junta de Andalucia	RNM-190},
organization = {Gobierno de Aragon	E02-20R},
organization = {German Research Foundation (DFG)	FOR2358},
publisher = {Nature},
title = {Past 200 kyr hydroclimate variability in the western Mediterranean and its connection to the African Humid Periods},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-022-12047-1},
author = {Camuera, Jon and Jiménez Moreno, Gonzalo and García-Alix Daroca, Antonio},
}