1540 Drought
June-August PDSI |
Welcome to the Old World Drought Atlas. This web
application provides access to summer (June-August) reconstructions of the
self-calibrating Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) on a 0.5°
latitude/longitude grid centered over Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East from AD
0000-2012. The reconstructions are derived from 106 tree-ring chronologies. For further details on the reconstructions, see Cook et al. (2015, link below).
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 0000-2012 is available via the link below.
Questions, comments, or suggestions may be sent to Dorian J. Burnette.
Citations
- Dataset: Cook, E.R., R. Seager, Y. Kushnir, K.R. Briffa, U. Buntgen, D.
Frank, P.J. Krusic, W. Tegel, G. van der Schrier, L. Andreu-Hayles, M. Baillie,
C. Baittinger, N. Bleicher, N. Bonde, D. Brown, M. Carrer, R. Cooper, K. Cufar,
C. Dittmar, J. Esper, C. Griggs, B. Gunnarson, B. Gunther, E. Gutierrez, K.
Haneca, S. Helama, F. Herzig, K-U. Heussner, J. Hofmann, P. Janda, R. Kontic, N.
Kose, T. Kyncl, T. Levanic, H. Linderholm, S. Manning, T. M. Melvin, D. Miles,
B. Neuwirth, K. Nicolussi, P. Nola, M. Panayotov, I. Popa, A. Rothe, K.
Seftigen, A. Seim, H. Svarva, M. Svoboda, T. Thun, M. Timonen, R. Touchan, V.
Trotsiuk, V. Trouet, F. Walder, T. Wazny, R. Wilson, and C. Zang, 2015: Old
World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era. Science Advances, 1, doi:
10.1126/sciadv.1500561.
[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. |