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: Vance, TR, Roberts, JL, Plummer, CT, Kiem, AS, van Ommen, TD
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd. 2017
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Palaeoclimatology; East Antarctica; Austral; Pacific; New Zealand; Law Dome; Vance; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7282; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/122567

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 19...