Abstract
For a great many, the summer drought represents the most distinctive property of mediterranean climates. But the Mediterranean Sea is also a moisture source region. The record depths of precipitations caught by rain gauges ut the Dinaric mountains and the high frequency of heavy downpours give an evidence of such a behaviour. The spatial and seasonal variations of the atmospheric précipitable water set a better means than hydrological balances to state and further on, to proceed to a quantitative analysis of the mediterranean moisture source working. In autumn, when the torpical air is blown away from the Saharian Desert, the possible amount of rain that may be expected from the mediterranean air reaches its uppermost values ; so are derived the heaviest downpours and the correlative ravaging floods.
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