Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

Edward R. Cook; Richard Seager; Yochanan Kushnir; Keith R.  Briffa; Ulf  Büntgen; David  Frank; Paul J. Krusic; Willy  Tegel; Gerard van der Schrier; Laia  Andreu-Hayles; Mike  Baillie; Claudia Baittinger; Niels  Bleicher; Niels  Bonde; David Brown; Marco  Marco; Richard Cooper; Katarina  Čufar; Christoph Dittmar; Jan  Esper; Carol Griggs; Björn  Gunnarson; Björn  Günther; Emilia  Gutierrez; Kristof  Haneca; Samuli  Helama; Franz  Herzig; Karl-Uwe  Heussner; Jutta  Hofmann; Pavel  Janda; Raymond  Kontic; Nesibe  Köse; Tomáš  Kyncl; Tom  Levanič; Hans  Linderholm; Sturt  Manning; Thomas M.  Melvin; Daniel  Miles; Burkhard  Neuwirth; Kurt  Nicolussi; Paola  Nola; Momchil  Panayotov; Ionel  Popa; Andreas Rothe; Kristina  Seftigen; Andrea  Seim; Helene  Svarva; Miroslav  Svoboda; Terje  Thun; Mauri  Timonen; Ramzi Touchan; Volodymyr  Trotsiuk; Valerie  Trouet; Felix  Walder; Rob  Wilson; Christian  Zang

doi:10.1126/sciadv.1500561

Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

Edward R. Cook
, Richard Seager
, Yochanan Kushnir
, Keith R. Briffa
, Ulf Büntgen
, David Frank
, Paul J. Krusic
, Willy Tegel
, Gerard van der Schrier
, Laia Andreu-Hayles
, Mike Baillie
, Claudia Baittinger
, Niels Bleicher
, Niels Bonde
, David Brown
, Marco Marco
, Richard Cooper
, Katarina Čufar
, Christoph Dittmar
, Jan Esper

Carol Griggs, Björn Gunnarson, Björn Günther, Emilia Gutierrez, Kristof Haneca, Samuli Helama, Franz Herzig, Karl-Uwe Heussner, Jutta Hofmann, Pavel Janda , Raymond Kontic, Nesibe Köse, Tomáš Kyncl, Tom Levanič, Hans Linderholm, Sturt Manning, Thomas M. Melvin, Daniel Miles, Burkhard Neuwirth, Kurt Nicolussi, Paola Nola, Momchil Panayotov, Ionel Popa, Andreas Rothe, Kristina Seftigen, Andrea Seim, Helene Svarva, Miroslav Svoboda, Terje Thun, Mauri Timonen, Ramzi Touchan, Volodymyr Trotsiuk, Valerie Trouet, Felix Walder, Rob Wilson, Christian Zang

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Climate model projections suggestwidespread drying in the Mediterranean Basin and wetting in Fennoscandia in the coming decades largely as a consequence of greenhouse gas forcing of climate. To place these and other “Old World” climate projections into historical perspective based on more complete estimates of natural hydroclimatic variability, we have developed the “Old World Drought Atlas” (OWDA), a set of year-to-year maps of tree-ring reconstructed summer wetness and dryness over Europe and the Mediterranean Basin during the Common Era.
The OWDA matches historical accounts of severe drought and wetness with a spatial completeness not previously available. In addition, megadroughts reconstructed over north-central Europe in the 11th and mid-15th centuries
reinforce other evidence from North America and Asia that droughts were more severe, extensive, and prolonged over Northern Hemisphere land areas before the 20th century, with an inadequate understanding of their causes. The OWDA provides new data to determine the causes of Old World drought and wetness and attribute past climate variability to forced and/or internal variability.

Original language	English
Article number	e1500561
Number of pages	9
Journal	Science Advances
Volume	1
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500561
Publication status	Published - 06 Nov 2015

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Cook, E. R., Seager, R., Kushnir, Y., Briffa, K. R., Büntgen, U., Frank, D., Krusic, P. J., Tegel, W., van der Schrier, G., Andreu-Hayles, L., Baillie, M., Baittinger, C., Bleicher, N., Bonde, N., Brown, D., Marco , M., Cooper, R., Čufar, K., Dittmar, C., ... Zang, C. (2015). Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era. Science Advances, 1(10), Article e1500561. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500561

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