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Laurent Li Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique
(LMD) Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL) CNRS,
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) 4, Place
Jussieu, 75252 Paris cedex 05 email
li_at_lmd.jussieu.fr
Supporting materials for the presentation CIRCLE
workshop, July 4th 2005, Paris
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GICC-MedWater

• Impacts of anthropogenic climate change on the
  water cycle of the Mediterranean basin
• (http//www.lmd.jussieu.fr/li/gicc_medwater/index
  .html)
• A project supported by the French National
  programme GICC (Gestion et Impact du Changement
  Climatique) 2003-2006
• A joint project of IPSL (Paris) and Meteo-France
  (Toulouse), with collaboration of MEDIAS
  (Toulouse)

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Mediterranean Sea (2.5x106 km2) (Courtesy of DLR)
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Regional scenarios performed in MedWater
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Changes (2100-2000) of water and heat budgets for
the 4 scenarios (IPCC-A2) and for the whole Med.
Sea
Both water deficit and heat budget increase
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T and S in control simulations LMDZ, Arpege and
their variations (2100-2000) for the 4 scenarios
Increase of both temperature and salinity in the
Med. Sea
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Decrease of both inflow and outflow in the
Gibraltar Strait. Warmer and saltier outflow
water exported from the Med. Sea
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