Comment on ‘Drought variability in the eastern Australia and New Zealand summer drought atlas (ANZDA, CE 1500–2012) modulated by the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation’

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Climatic Influences on Midwest Drought during the Twentieth Century

The Dustbowl Era drought in the 1930s was the principal Midwest drought of the twentieth century, occurring primarily in late spring–summer [April–August (AMJJA)] when 70% of annual rainfall normally occurred. Another major Midwest drought occurred in the 1950s but primarily in fall–early winter [September–December (SOND)] when normal rainfall was 1/2 as much. Optimized canonical correlation an...

Precipitation, Temperature, and Teleconnection Signals across the Combined North American, Monsoon Asia, and Old World Drought Atlases

The tree-ring-based North American Drought Atlas (NADA), Monsoon Asia Drought Atlas (MADA), and Old World Drought Atlas (OWDA) collectively yield a near-hemispheric gridded reconstruction of hydroclimate variability over the last millennium. To test the robustness of the large-scale representation of hydroclimate variability across the drought atlases, the joint expression of seasonal climate v...

Probabilistic trend of anomalous summer rainfall in Beijing: Role of interdecadal variability

[1] The interdecadal variability of summer precipitation in Beijing from 1724 to 2005 is analyzed using a filter, keeping the true trends at time series ends. A probability distribution, Pearson type III, was applied to the summer precipitation series to estimate the probability of anomalous rainfall. This study includes the correlation between the interdecadal variations of the summer precipit...

Links between Indo-Pacific climate variability and drought in the Monsoon Asia Drought Atlas

Drought patterns across monsoon and temperate Asia over the period 1877–2005 are linked to IndoPacific climate variability associated with the El NiñoSouthern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). Using the Monsoon Asia Drought Atlas (MADA) composed of a high-resolution network of hydroclimatically sensitive tree-ring records with a focus on the June– August months, spatial drou...