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

• Published in: Environmental Research Letters
• Main Authors: Tessa R Vance, Jason L Roberts, Chris T Plummer, Anthony S Kiem, Tas D van Ommen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 2017
• Subjects: Law Dome; interdecadal Pacific oscillation; drought; ANZDA; Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering; TD1-1066; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Science; Q; Physics; QC1-999; Austral; East Antarctica; New Zealand; Pacific; Vance; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7282; https://doaj.org/article/bf0beaff7bcf40a288bd75623a2633fe

The study of (Palmer et al 2015 Environ. Res. Lett. 10 124002 ) details a spatial reconstruction of drought across eastern Australia and New Zealand over the last 500 years. The authors used a global 0.5° by 0.5° gridded network of the self-calibrating Palmer drought severity index (scPDSI) spanning...