Interdecadal pacific variability and eastern Australian megadroughts over the last millennium

• Main Authors: Vance, T. R., Roberts, J. L., Plummer, C. T., Kiem, A. S., van Ommen, T. D.
• Other Authors: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Science & Information Technology, School of Environmental and Life Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2015
• Subjects: Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO); drought risk; Indian Ocean; easter Australia; Dome The; East Antarctica; Indian; Law Dome; Pacific; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1333868

The Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) influences multidecadal drought risk across the Pacific, but there are no millennial-length, high-resolution IPO reconstructions for quantifying long-term drought risk. In Australia, drought risk increases in positive phases of the IPO, yet few suitable rai...