16th Century Megadrought
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Welcome to the North American Seasonal Precipitation Atlas. This web application provides access to cool- and warm-season reconstructions of total precipitation and the standardized precipitation index on a 0.5° latitude/longitude grid centered over North America from AD 0000-2016.
Maps and time series can be created using tools under the "Maps" and "Time Series" menus, respectively. For details on how to create maps and time series, see the "Help" menu. An animation that runs through each year of the reconstruction from AD 0000-2016 is available via the link below.
Questions, comments, or suggestions may be sent to Dorian J. Burnette.
Citations
- Dataset: Stahle, D.W., E.R. Cook, D.J. Burnette, M.C.A. Torbenson, I.M. Howard, D. Griffin, J. Villanueva-Diaz, B.I. Cook, A.P. Williams, E. Watson, D.J. Sauchyn, N. Pederson, C.A. Woodhouse, G.T. Pederson, D. Meko, B. Coulthard, and C.J. Crawford, 2020: Dynamics, variability, and change in seasonal precipitation reconstructions for North America. Journal of Climate, 33, 3173-3195. [Download pdf]
- Web App: Burnette, D.J., 2021: The Tree-Ring Drought Atlas Portal: gridded drought reconstructions for the past 500-2000 years.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102, 953-956. [Download pdf]
The entire dataset can be downloaded from NOAA Paleoclimatology. |