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

dc.contributor.author Morales, Mariano S. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Cook, Edward R. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Barichivich, Jonathan es_PE
dc.contributor.author Christie, Duncan A. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Villalba, Ricardo es_PE
dc.contributor.author LeQuesne, Carlos es_PE
dc.contributor.author Srur, Ana M. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Ferrero, M. Eugenia es_PE
dc.contributor.author Gonzalez-Reyes, Alvaro es_PE
dc.contributor.author Couvreux, Fleur es_PE
dc.contributor.author Matskovsky, Vladimir es_PE
dc.contributor.author Aravena, Juan C. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Lara, Antonio es_PE
dc.contributor.author Mundo, Ignacio A. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Rojas, Facundo es_PE
dc.contributor.author Prieto, Maria R. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Smerdon, Jason E. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Bianchi, Lucas O. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Masiokas, Mariano H. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Urrutia-Jalabert, Rocio es_PE
dc.contributor.author Rodriguez-Caton, Milagros es_PE
dc.contributor.author Munoz, Ariel A. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Rojas-Badilla, Moises es_PE
dc.contributor.author Alvarez, Claudio es_PE
dc.contributor.author Lopez, Lidio es_PE
dc.contributor.author Luckman, Brian H. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Lister, David es_PE
dc.contributor.author Harris, Ian es_PE
dc.contributor.author Jones, Philip D. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Williams, A. Park es_PE
dc.contributor.author Velazquez, Gonzalo es_PE
dc.contributor.author Aliste, Diego es_PE
dc.contributor.author Aguilera-Betti, Isabella es_PE
dc.contributor.author Marcotti, Eugenia es_PE
dc.contributor.author Flores, Felipe es_PE
dc.contributor.author Munoz, Tomas es_PE
dc.contributor.author Cuq, Emilio es_PE
dc.contributor.author Boninsegna, Jose A. es_PE
dc.date.accessioned 2024-05-30T23:13:38Z
dc.date.available 2024-05-30T23:13:38Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.description.abstract 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 atmospheric pressure fields, we determine that the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) are strongly associated with spatially extended droughts and pluvials over the SADA domain during the past several centuries. SADA also exhibits more extended severe droughts and extreme pluvials since the mid-20th century. Extensive droughts are consistent with the observed 20th-century trend toward positive SAM anomalies concomitant with the weakening of midlatitude Westerlies, while low-level moisture transport intensified by global warming has favored extreme rainfall across the subtropics. The SADA thus provides a long-term context for observed hydroclimatic changes and for 21st-century Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projections that suggest SA will experience more frequent/severe droughts and rainfall events as a consequence of increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
dc.description.sponsorship Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica - Concytec
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2002411117
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12390/2813
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
dc.relation.ispartof PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject Multidisciplinary
dc.subject.ocde http://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#2.07.01
dc.title Six hundred years of South American tree rings reveal an increase in severe hydroclimatic events since mid-20th century
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dspace.entity.type Publication
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