Tropical nights on the Spanish Mediterranean coast, 1950-2014

Abstract

The increase in the number of tropical night events constitutes some of the main evidence of the global warming process throughout the Mediterranean region. There has been a significant increase in the number of these events since the second half of the 20th century. From the meteorological observations in the period 1950-2014 in the regions of Valencia and Murcia, in the central sector of the Spanish Mediterranean coast, this work analyses the evolution of the number of tropical nights, the length of the episodes, and their frequency. We also discuss the relationship of the number of tropical nights with the increase of the Mediterranean Sea surface temperatures in the sectors of the Algerian and Balearic Seas, as This is a previous version of the article published in

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