@article {Drobinski2016,
	title = {Scaling precipitation extremes with temperature in the Mediterranean: past climate assessment and projection in anthropogenic scenarios},
	journal = {Climate Dynamics},
	year = {2016},
	month = {mar},
	abstract = {In this study we investigate the scaling of precipitation extremes with temperature in the Mediterranean region by assessing against observations the present day and future regional climate simulations performed in the frame of the HyMeX and MED-CORDEX programs. Over the 1979{\textendash}2008 period, despite differences in quantitative precipitation simulation across the various models, the change in precipitation extremes with respect to temperature is robust and consistent. The spatial variability of the temperature{\textendash}precipitation extremes relationship displays a hook shape across the Mediterranean, with negative slope at high temperatures and a slope following Clausius{\textendash}Clapeyron (CC)-scaling at low temperatures. The temperature at which the slope of the temperature{\textendash}precipitation extreme relation sharply changes (or temperature break), ranges from about 20~\$\backslash$textdegree\C in the western Mediterranean to \textless10~\$\backslash$textdegree\C in Greece. In addition, this slope is always negative in the arid regions of the Mediterranean. The scaling of the simulated precipitation extremes is insensitive to ocean{\textendash}atmosphere coupling, while it depends very weakly on the resolution at high temperatures for short precipitation accumulation times. In future climate scenario simulations covering the 2070{\textendash}2100 period, the temperature break shifts to higher temperatures by a value which is on average the mean regional temperature change due to global warming. The slope of the simulated future temperature{\textendash}precipitation extremes relationship is close to CC-scaling at temperatures below the temperature break, while at high temperatures, the negative slope is close, but somewhat flatter or steeper, than in the current climate depending on the model. Overall, models predict more intense precipitation extremes in the future. Adjusting the temperature{\textendash}precipitation extremes relationship in the present climate using the CC law and the temperature shift in the future allows the recovery of the temperature{\textendash}precipitation extremes relationship in the future climate. This implies negligible regional changes of relative humidity in the future despite the large warming and drying over the Mediterranean. This suggests that the Mediterranean Sea is the primary source of moisture which counteracts the drying and warming impacts on relative humidity in parts of the Mediterranean region.},
	issn = {1432-0894},
	doi = {10.1007/s00382-016-3083-x},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-016-3083-x},
	author = {Drobinski, Philippe and Da Silva, Nicolas and Panthou, G{\'e}r{\'e}my and Bastin, Sophie and Muller, Caroline and Ahrens, Bodo and Borga, Marco and Conte, Dario and Fosser, Giorgia and Giorgi, Filippo and G{\"u}ttler, Ivan and Kotroni, Vassiliki and Li, Laurent and Morin, Efrat and {\"O}nol, Bari$\backslash$cs and Quintana-Segui, Pere and Romera, Raquel and Torma, Csaba Zsolt}
}
@article {Flaounas2012,
	title = {Assessment of gridded observations used for climate model validation in the Mediterranean region: the HyMeX and MED-CORDEX framework},
	journal = {Environmental Research Letters},
	volume = {7},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {024017},
	abstract = {This letter assesses the quality of temperature and rainfall daily retrievals of the European Climate Assessment and Dataset (ECA\&D) with respect to measurements collected locally in various parts of the Euro-Mediterranean region in the framework of the Hydrological Cycle in the Mediterranean Experiment (HyMeX), endorsed by the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP). The ECA\&D, among other gridded datasets, is very often used as a reference for model calibration and evaluation. This is for instance the case in the context of the WCRP Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) and its Mediterranean declination MED-CORDEX. This letter quantifies ECA\&D dataset uncertainties associated with temperature and precipitation intra-seasonal variability, seasonal distribution and extremes. Our motivation is to help the interpretation of the results when validating or calibrating downscaling models by the ECA\&D dataset in the context of regional climate research in the Euro-Mediterranean region.},
	issn = {1748-9326},
	doi = {10.1088/1748-9326/7/2/024017},
	url = {http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/7/2/024017/meta},
	author = {Flaounas, Emmanouil and Drobinski, Philippe and Borga, Marco and Calvet, Jean-Christophe and Delrieu, Guy and Morin, Efrat and Tartari, Gianni and Toffolon, Roberta}
}
