Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene

BI Cook, JE Smerdon, ER Cook, AP Williams… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Exceptional drought events, known as megadroughts, have occurred on every continent
outside Antarctica over the past~ 2,000 years, causing major ecological and societal …

On the essentials of drought in a changing climate

TR Ault - Science, 2020 - science.org
Droughts of the future are likely to be more frequent, severe, and longer lasting than they
have been in recent decades, but drought risks will be lower if greenhouse gas emissions …

Twenty‐first century drought projections in the CMIP6 forcing scenarios

BI Cook, JS Mankin, K Marvel, AP Williams… - Earth's …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
There is strong evidence that climate change will increase drought risk and severity, but
these conclusions depend on the regions, seasons, and drought metrics being considered …

Central and south america

EJ Castellanos, MF Lemos, L Astigarraga, N Chacón… - 2022 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
Central and South America (CSA) is a highly diverse region, both culturally and biologically.
It has one of the highest levels of biodiversity on the planet (Hoorn et al., 2010; Zador et al …

Persistent anticyclonic conditions and climate change exacerbated the exceptional 2022 European-Mediterranean drought

D Faranda, S Pascale, B Bulut - Environmental Research Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A prolonged drought affected Western Europe and the Mediterranean region in 2022
producing large socio-ecological impacts. The role of anthropogenic climate change (ACC) …

Geomorphic and sedimentary effects of modern climate change: Current and anticipated future conditions in the western United States

AE East, JB Sankey - Reviews of Geophysics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Hydroclimatic changes associated with global warming over the past 50 years have been
documented widely, but physical landscape responses are poorly understood thus far …

[HTML][HTML] Climate perspectives in the intra–Americas seas

AM Durán-Quesada, R Sorí, P Ordoñez, L Gimeno - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Intra–Americas Seas region is known for its relevance to air–sea interaction processes,
the contrast between large water masses and a relatively small continental area, and the …

Natural variability vs forced signal in the 2015–2019 Central American drought

S Pascale, SB Kapnick, TL Delworth, HG Hidalgo… - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The recent multi-year 2015–2019 drought after a multi-decadal drying trend over
Central America raises the question of whether anthropogenic climate change (ACC) played …

The uneven impact of climate change on drought with elevation in the Canary Islands

J Carrillo, S Hernández-Barrera, FJ Expósito… - npj Climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate models project an increase in drought and aridity in many regions in response to
greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. In areas with complex topography, such …

Assessment and attribution of China's droughts using an integrated drought index derived from GRACE and GRACE-FO data

S Deng, S Liu, X Mo - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Different definitions of drought from multiple perspectives complicate drought studies.
Studying droughts from an integrated perspective helps to better understand their evolutions …