Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene

BI Cook, JE Smerdon, ER Cook, AP Williams… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Exceptional drought events, known as megadroughts, have occurred on every continent
outside Antarctica over the past~ 2,000 years, causing major ecological and societal …

Can southern Australian rainfall decline be explained? A review of possible drivers

RC McKay, G Boschat, I Rudeva… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Southern Australia's rainfall is highly variable and influenced by factors across scales from
synoptic weather to large‐scale circulation and remote climate modes of variability …

Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

[PDF][PDF] The central Chile mega drought (2010–2018): a climate dynamics perspective

RD Garreaud, JP Boisier, R Rondanelli… - International Journal …, 2020 - researchgate.net
Central Chile, home to more than 10 million inhabitants, has experienced an uninterrupted
sequence of dry years since 2010 with mean rainfall deficits of 20–40%. The so-called Mega …

Central and South America

EJ Castellanos, MF Lemos, L Astigarraga, N Chacón… - 2022 - repositorio.inta.gob.ar
The chapter is divided into two main sections. The first section follows an integrative
approach in which hazards, exposure, vulnerability, impacts and risks are discussed …

The 2010–2015 megadrought in central Chile: impacts on regional hydroclimate and vegetation

RD Garreaud, C Alvarez-Garreton… - Hydrology and earth …, 2017 - hess.copernicus.org
Since 2010 an uninterrupted sequence of dry years, with annual rainfall deficits ranging from
25 to 45%, has prevailed in central Chile (western South America, 30–38° S). Although …

Present‐day and future climate over central and South America according to CMIP5/CMIP6 models

G Ortega, PA Arias, JC Villegas… - International Journal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In tropical regions, particularly in Central and South America (CSA), the projections of
climate seasonality under climate change are still uncertain. This is especially true for …

Evaluation of the ability of CMIP6 models to simulate precipitation over Southwestern South America: Climatic features and long-term trends (1901–2014)

JA Rivera, G Arnould - Atmospheric Research, 2020 - Elsevier
This study evaluates the performance of precipitation simulated in the historical runs of the
Climate Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMPI6) in capturing the complex spatial …

Temporal and spatial evaluation of satellite-based rainfall estimates across the complex topographical and climatic gradients of Chile

M Zambrano-Bigiarini, A Nauditt… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2017 - hess.copernicus.org
Accurate representation of the real spatio-temporal variability of catchment rainfall inputs is
currently severely limited. Moreover, spatially interpolated catchment precipitation is subject …

Anthropogenic drying in central-southern Chile evidenced by long-term observations and climate model simulations

JP Boisier, C Alvarez-Garreton, RR Cordero… - Elem Sci …, 2018 - online.ucpress.edu
The socio-ecological sensitivity to water deficits makes Chile highly vulnerable to global
change. New evidence of a multi-decadal drying trend and the impacts of a persistent …