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Six hundred years of South American tree rings reveal an increase in severe hydroclimatic events since mid-20th century

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Morales, Mariano S., Cook, Edward R., Barichivich, Jonathan, Christie, Duncan A., Villalba, Ricardo, LeQuesne, Carlos, Srur, Ana M., Ferrero, M. Eugenia, Gonzalez-Reyes, Alvaro, Couvreux, Fleur, Matskovsky, Vladimir, Aravena, Juan C., Lara, Antonio, Mundo, Ignacio A., Rojas, Facundo, Prieto, Maria R., Smerdon, Jason E., Bianchi, Lucas O., Masiokas, Mariano H., Urrutia-Jalabert, Rocio, Rodriguez-Caton, Milagros, Munoz, Ariel A., Rojas-Badilla, Moises, Alvarez, Claudio, Lopez, Lidio, Luckman, Brian H., Lister, David, Harris, Ian, Jones, Philip D., Williams, A. Park, Velazquez, Gonzalo, Aliste, Diego, Aguilera-Betti, Isabella, Marcotti, Eugenia, Flores, Felipe, Munoz, Tomas, Cuq, Emilio, Boninsegna, Jose A.

Publicado 2020

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South American (SA) societies are highly vulnerable to droughts and pluvials, but lack of long-term climate observations severely limits our understanding of the global processes driving climatic variability in the region. The number and quality of SA climate-sensitive tree ring chronologies have significantly increased in recent decades, now providing a robust network of 286 records for characterizing hydroclimate variability since 1400 CE. We combine this network with a self-calibrated Palmer Drought Severity Index (scPDSI) dataset to derive the South American Drought Atlas (SADA) over the continent south of 12 degrees S. The gridded annual reconstruction of austral summer scPDSI is the most spatially complete estimate of SA hydroclimate to date, and well matches past historical dry/wet events. Relating the SADA to the Australia-New Zealand Drought Atlas, sea surface temperatures and a...