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 …

Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires

M Mariani, SE Connor, M Theuerkauf… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent catastrophic fires in Australia and North America have raised broad‐scale questions
about how the cessation of Indigenous burning practices has impacted fuel accumulation …

Antarctic atmospheric river climatology and precipitation impacts

JD Wille, V Favier, IV Gorodetskaya… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) is sensitive to short‐term extreme meteorological events that
can leave long‐term impacts on the continent's surface mass balance (SMB). We investigate …

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 …

A review of past and projected changes in Australia's rainfall

R Dey, SC Lewis, JM Arblaster… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
There has been much attention given to the spatial and temporal characteristics of changes
in mean and extreme rainfall over Australia during the past century. As Australia is the …

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 …

Regional Antarctic snow accumulation over the past 1000 years

ER Thomas, JM Van Wessem, J Roberts… - Climate of the …, 2017 - cp.copernicus.org
Here we present Antarctic snow accumulation variability at the regional scale over the past
1000 years. A total of 79 ice core snow accumulation records were gathered and assigned …

Drought variability in the eastern Australia and New Zealand summer drought atlas (ANZDA, CE 1500–2012) modulated by the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation

JG Palmer, ER Cook, CSM Turney… - Environmental …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Agricultural production across eastern Australia and New Zealand is highly vulnerable to
drought, but there is a dearth of observational drought information prior to CE 1850. Using a …

Modes of climate variability: Synthesis and review of proxy-based reconstructions through the Holocene

A Hernández, C Martin-Puertas, P Moffa-Sánchez… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Modes of climate variability affect global and regional climates on different spatio-temporal
scales, and they have important impacts on human activities and ecosystems. As these …

Palaeoclimate perspectives on the Indian Ocean dipole

NJ Abram, JA Hargreaves, NM Wright… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) has major climate impacts worldwide, and most
profoundly for nations around the Indian Ocean basin. It has been 20 years since the IOD …