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 change and drought: From past to future

BI Cook, JS Mankin, KJ Anchukaitis - Current Climate Change Reports, 2018 - Springer
Drought is a complex and multivariate phenomenon influenced by diverse physical and
biological processes. Such complexity precludes simplistic explanations of cause and effect …

Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021

AP Williams, BI Cook, JE Smerdon - Nature Climate Change, 2022 - nature.com
A previous reconstruction back to 800 ce indicated that the 2000–2018 soil moisture deficit
in southwestern North America was exceeded during one megadrought in the late-1500s …

[HTML][HTML] A new global database of meteorological drought events from 1951 to 2016

J Spinoni, P Barbosa, A De Jager, N McCormick… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Study region This study has three spatial scales: global (0.5°), macro-regional, and country
scale. The database of drought events has specific entries for each macro-region and …

How unusual is the 2012–2014 California drought?

D Griffin, KJ Anchukaitis - Geophysical Research Letters, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
For the past three years (2012–2014), California has experienced the most severe drought
conditions in its last century. But how unusual is this event? Here we use two paleoclimate …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Climate variability and change since 850 CE: An ensemble approach with the Community Earth System Model

BL Otto-Bliesner, EC Brady, J Fasullo… - Bulletin of the …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Climate Variability and Change since 850 CE: An Ensemble Approach with the Community
Earth System Model in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 97 Issue 5 (2016) …

[HTML][HTML] 近半个世纪我国干旱变化的初步研究

邹旭恺, 张强 - 应用气象学报, 2008 - html.rhhz.net
利用我国地面606 个气象观测台站1951—2006 年的逐日降水量和平均气温资料, 使用《
气象干旱等级》 国家标准中推荐使用的综合气象干旱指数(IC), 分析了近半个世纪以来全国及 …

干旱灾害和我国西北干旱气候的研究进展及问题

钱正安, 吴统文, 宋敏红, 马晓波, 蔡英, 梁潇云 - 地球科学进展, 2001 - adearth.ac.cn
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Resistance and resilience of a grassland ecosystem to climate extremes

DL Hoover, AK Knapp, MD Smith - Ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change forecasts of more frequent climate extremes suggest that such events will
become increasingly important drivers of future ecosystem dynamics and function. Because …