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 …

Initialized Earth System prediction from subseasonal to decadal timescales

GA Meehl, JH Richter, H Teng, A Capotondi… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Initialized Earth System predictions are made by starting a numerical prediction
model in a state as consistent as possible to observations and running it forward in time for …

Twenty-first century hydroclimate: A continually changing baseline, with more frequent extremes

S Stevenson, S Coats, D Touma… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Variability in hydroclimate impacts natural and human systems worldwide. In particular, both
decadal variability and extreme precipitation events have substantial effects and are …

The twenty‐first century Colorado River hot drought and implications for the future

B Udall, J Overpeck - Water Resources Research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Between 2000 and 2014, annual Colorado River flows averaged 19% below the
1906–1999 average, the worst 15‐year drought on record. At least one‐sixth to one‐half …

Unprecedented 21st century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains

BI Cook, TR Ault, JE Smerdon - Science Advances, 2015 - science.org
In the Southwest and Central Plains of Western North America, climate change is expected
to increase drought severity in the coming decades. These regions nevertheless …

Projected drought risk in 1.5 C and 2 C warmer climates

F Lehner, S Coats, TF Stocker… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The large socioeconomic costs of droughts make them a crucial target for impact
assessments of climate change scenarios. Using multiple drought metrics and a set of …

Natural hazards in Australia: droughts

AS Kiem, F Johnson, S Westra, A van Dijk, JP Evans… - Climatic Change, 2016 - Springer
Droughts are a recurrent and natural part of the Australian hydroclimate, with evidence of
drought dating back thousands of years. However, our ability to monitor, attribute, forecast …

[HTML][HTML] ESD reviews: Model dependence in multi-model climate ensembles: Weighting, sub-selection and out-of-sample testing

G Abramowitz, N Herger, E Gutmann… - Earth System …, 2019 - esd.copernicus.org
The rationale for using multi-model ensembles in climate change projections and impacts
research is often based on the expectation that different models constitute independent …

A reconstruction of global hydroclimate and dynamical variables over the Common Era

NJ Steiger, JE Smerdon, ER Cook, BI Cook - Scientific data, 2018 - nature.com
Hydroclimate extremes critically affect human and natural systems, but there remain many
unanswered questions about their causes and how to interpret their dynamics in the past …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the risk of persistent drought using climate model simulations and paleoclimate data

TR Ault, JE Cole, JT Overpeck, GT Pederson… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Assessing the Risk of Persistent Drought Using Climate Model Simulations and Paleoclimate
Data in: Journal of Climate Volume 27 Issue 20 (2014) Jump to Content Jump to Main …