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

• Main Authors: Vance, Tessa R., Roberts, Jason L., Plummer, Chris T., Kiem, Anthony S., van Ommen, Tas D.
• Other Authors: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Science, School of Environmental and Life Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2017
• Subjects: Law Dome; interdecadal Pacific oscillation; drought; ANZDA; Austral; East Antarctica; New Zealand; Pacific; Vance; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1400293

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...