https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2021-55 Preprint. Discussion started: 24 August 2021 c Author(s) 2021. CC BY 4.0 License. Mediterranean cyclones: Current knowledge and open questions on dynamics, prediction, climatology and impacts Emmanouil Flaounas1, Silvio Davolio2, Shira Raveh-Rubin3, Florian Pantillon4, Mario Marcello Miglietta5, Μiguel Angel Gaertner6, Maria Hatzaki7, Victor Homar8, Samira Khodayar9, Gerasimos 5 Korres1, Vassiliki Kotroni10, Jonilda Kushta11, Marco Reale12, 13, Didier Ricard14 1Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Athens, Greece 2National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC), Bologna, Italy 3Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 4Laboratoire d’Aérologie, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, IRD, Toulouse, France 10 5National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC), Padua, Italy 6University of Castilla-La Mancha, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Biochemistry, Toledo, Spain 7Department of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 10679 Athens, Greece 8Meteorology Group, Physics Department, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma, Mallorca, Spain 9Mediterranean Centre for Environmental Studies (CEAM), Valencia, Spain 15 10Institute of Environmental Research and Sustainable Development, National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Athens, Greece 11Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C), The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia 2121, Cyprus 12National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Via Beirut, 2, 34151, Trieste, Italy 13Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, ICTP, ESP group, Trieste, Italy 20 14CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France Correspondence to: Emmanouil Flaounas (
[email protected]) Abstract. A large number of intense cyclones occur every year in the Mediterranean basin, one of the climate change hotspots.