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 …

Climate impacts of the El Niño–southern oscillation on South America

W Cai, MJ McPhaden, AM Grimm… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The climate of South America (SA) has long held an intimate connection with El
Niño, historically describing anomalously warm sea-surface temperatures off the coastline of …

Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

Accelerated global glacier mass loss in the early twenty-first century

R Hugonnet, R McNabb, E Berthier, B Menounos… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Glaciers distinct from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are shrinking rapidly, altering
regional hydrology, raising global sea level and elevating natural hazards. Yet, owing to the …

Systematic climate model biases in the large‐scale patterns of recent sea‐surface temperature and sea‐level pressure change

RCJ Wills, Y Dong, C Proistosecu… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Observed surface temperature trends over recent decades are characterized by (a)
intensified warming in the Indo‐Pacific Warm Pool and slight cooling in the eastern …

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 …

A joint framework for studying compound ecoclimatic events

A Bastos, S Sippel, D Frank, MD Mahecha… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Extreme weather and climate events have direct impacts on ecosystems and can further
trigger ecosystem disturbances, often having impacts that last longer than the event's …

Evaluation of the ability of CMIP6 models to simulate precipitation over Southwestern South America: Climatic features and long-term trends (1901–2014)

JA Rivera, G Arnould - Atmospheric Research, 2020 - Elsevier
This study evaluates the performance of precipitation simulated in the historical runs of the
Climate Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMPI6) in capturing the complex spatial …

Six hundred years of South American tree rings reveal an increase in severe hydroclimatic events since mid-20th century

MS Morales, ER Cook, J Barichivich… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
South American (SA) societies are highly vulnerable to droughts and pluvials, but lack of
long-term climate observations severely limits our understanding of the global processes …

Can southern Australian rainfall decline be explained? A review of possible drivers

RC McKay, G Boschat, I Rudeva… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Southern Australia's rainfall is highly variable and influenced by factors across scales from
synoptic weather to large‐scale circulation and remote climate modes of variability …