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 …

A review of droughts on the African continent: a geospatial and long-term perspective

I Masih, S Maskey, FEF Mussá… - Hydrology and earth …, 2014 - hess.copernicus.org
This paper presents a comprehensive review and analysis of the available literature and
information on droughts to build a continental, regional and country level perspective on …

On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die‐off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

CD Allen, DD Breshears, NG McDowell - Ecosphere, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Patterns, mechanisms, projections, and consequences of tree mortality and associated
broad‐scale forest die‐off due to drought accompanied by warmer temperatures—“hotter …

Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

ER Cook, R Seager, Y Kushnir, KR Briffa… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
Climate model projections suggest widespread drying in the Mediterranean Basin and
wetting in Fennoscandia in the coming decades largely as a consequence of greenhouse …

Spatiotemporal drought variability in the Mediterranean over the last 900 years

BI Cook, KJ Anchukaitis, R Touchan… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Recent Mediterranean droughts have highlighted concerns that climate change may be
contributing to observed drying trends, but natural climate variability in the region is still …

[ΒΙΒΛΙΟ][B] The climate of the Mediterranean region: From the past to the future

P Lionello - 2012 - books.google.com
The Mediterranean region contains a diverse and interesting climate ranging from areas
with permanent glaciers to areas of subtropical, semiarid regions. The region is potentially …

Spatiotemporal drought variability on the Mongolian Plateau from 1980–2014 based on the SPEI-PM, intensity analysis and Hurst exponent

S Tong, Q Lai, J Zhang, Y Bao, A Lusi, Q Ma… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge about variations of drought can provide a scientific basis for water
resource planning and drought mitigation. In this study, the variations and patterns of …

[ΒΙΒΛΙΟ][B] Climate variability, drought, and drought management in Morocco's agricultural sector

D Verner, D Treguer, J Redwood, J Christensen… - 2018 - documents.worldbank.org
Droughts in Morocco are increasing in frequency and intensity. Associated with global
climate change, this trend will likely be more evident in the future. Drought damage to the …

An overview of tree-ring width records across the Northern Hemisphere

SS George - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
This review describes the structure and characteristics of the Northern Hemisphere tree-ring
width network, and examines the associations between these data and key aspects of local …

Tree-ring reconstructed summer temperature anomalies for temperate East Asia since 800 CE

ER Cook, PJ Krusic, KJ Anchukaitis, BM Buckley… - Climate Dynamics, 2013 - Springer
We develop a summer temperature reconstruction for temperate East Asia based on a
network of annual tree-ring chronologies covering the period 800–1989 CE The East Asia …