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 …

Hydroclimatic changes in China and surroundings during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age: spatial patterns and possible mechanisms

J Chen, F Chen, S Feng, W Huang, J Liu… - Quaternary science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Investigating hydroclimatic changes during key periods such as the Medieval Climate
Anomaly (MCA, 1000–1300 AD) and the Little Ice Age (LIA, 1400–1900 AD) is of …

Megadroughts in North America: Placing IPCC projections of hydroclimatic change in a long‐term palaeoclimate context

ER Cook, R Seager, RR Heim Jr… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
IPCC Assessment Report 4 model projections suggest that the subtropical dry zones of the
world will both dry and expand poleward in the future due to greenhouse warming. The US …

A 1,200-year perspective of 21st century drought in southwestern North America

CA Woodhouse, DM Meko… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
A key feature of anticipated 21st century droughts in Southwest North America is the
concurrence of elevated temperatures and increased aridity. Instrumental records and …

A review of the South American monsoon history as recorded in stable isotopic proxies over the past two millennia

M Vuille, SJ Burns, BL Taylor, FW Cruz… - Climate of the …, 2012 - cp.copernicus.org
We review the history of the South American summer monsoon (SASM) over the past~ 2000
yr based on high-resolution stable isotope proxies from speleothems, ice cores and lake …

[HTML][HTML] Palaeolimnological evidence for an east–west climate see-saw in the Mediterranean since AD 900

N Roberts, A Moreno, BL Valero-Garcés… - Global and Planetary …, 2012 - Elsevier
During the period of instrumental records, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) has strongly
influenced inter-annual precipitation variations in the western Mediterranean, while some …

The Holocene history of the North American Monsoon:'known knowns' and 'known unknowns' in understanding its spatial and temporal complexity

SE Metcalfe, JA Barron, SJ Davies - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Evidence for climatic change across the North American Monsoon (NAM) and adjacent
areas is reviewed, drawing on continental and marine records and the application of climate …

North American megadroughts in the Common Era: Reconstructions and simulations

BI Cook, ER Cook, JE Smerdon… - Wiley …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
During the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA), Western North America experienced episodes
of intense aridity that persisted for multiple decades or longer. These megadroughts are well …

[HTML][HTML] Pan-continental droughts in North America over the last millennium

BI Cook, JE Smerdon, R Seager… - Journal of Climate, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Regional droughts are common in North America, but pan-continental droughts extending
across multiple regions, including the 2012 event, are rare relative to single-region events …