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NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Old World Drought Atlas

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This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Climate Reconstruction. The data include parameters of climate reconstructions|tree ring with a geographic location of Europe. The time period coverage is from 1950 to -62 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.
  • Cite as: Cook, E.R. (2015-11-06): NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Old World Drought Atlas. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. https://doi.org/10.25921/rjm6-mq74. Accessed [date].
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Dataset Point of Contact NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
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Dataset Point of Contact Data Center Contact
NOAA World Data Service for Paleoclimatology
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Coverage Description Date Range: 0 CE to 2012 CE; Date Range: 1950 cal yr BP to -62 cal yr BP;
Time Period 0 to 2012
Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates
West: -11.75
East: 44.75
South: 27.25
North: 70.75
Spatial Coverage Map
General Documentation
Associated Resources
  • Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era
    • Associated Reference published 2015
      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 Carrer, 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, Tomasz Ważny, Rob Wilson and Christian Zang, 2015: Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era. Science Advances, 1, , 10.1126/sciadv.1500561
Publication Dates
  • publication: 2015-11-06
Data Presentation Form Digital table - digital representation of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns
Dataset Progress Status Complete - production of the data has been completed
Data Update Frequency Data update frequency not available
Supplemental Information
STUDY NOTES: Gridded (0.5x0.5 degree) reconstruction of drought (Palmer Drought Severity Index, PDSI) for Europe and the Mediterranean region over the past 2,000 years, based on tree-ring data.
ABSTRACT SUPPLIED BY ORIGINATOR: Climate model projections suggest widespread 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.
Purpose Records of past temperature, precipitation, and other climate variables derived from paleoclimate proxies. Parameter keywords describe what was measured in this data set. Additional summary information can be found in the abstracts of papers listed in the data set citations.
Dataset Citation
  • Cite as: Cook, E.R. (2015-11-06): NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Old World Drought Atlas. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. https://doi.org/10.25921/rjm6-mq74. Accessed [date].
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Cited Authors
  • Cook, E.R.
Originators
  • Cook, E.R.
Publishers
  • NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Theme keywords Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
  • Earth Science > Climate Indicators > Paleoclimate Indicators > Paleoclimate Reconstructions
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
  • earth science > paleoclimate > climate reconstructions|tree ring
  • earth science > paleoclimate > climate reconstructions|tree ring
  • earth science > paleoclimate > climate reconstructions|tree ring
  • earth science > paleoclimate > climate reconstructions|tree ring
  • earth science > paleoclimate > reconstructions > precipitation
  • Palmer Drought Index Reconstruction
Paleoenvironmental Standard Terms (PaST) Thesaurus
  • What: longitude; Material: null
  • What: latitude; Material: null
  • What: age; Material: null
  • What: Palmer Drought Severity Index; Material: null
Data Center keywords Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords
  • DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Place keywords
  • Continent > Europe > Old World > LATITUDE > LONGITUDE
Use Constraints
  • Cite as: Cook, E.R. (2015-11-06): NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Old World Drought Atlas. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. https://doi.org/10.25921/rjm6-mq74. Accessed [date].
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