Mapping Drought (IMAGE)

Columbia Climate School

Mapping Drought

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Maps from a new 2,000-year drought atlas show rainfall conditions over the whole continent, and much of the Mediterranean. A chart for 1741 shows severe drought (brown areas) running from Ireland into central Europe and beyond. A chart for the year 1315 shows the opposite problem -- too much rain (dark green areas), which made farming almost impossible.

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Cook et al., Science Advances, 2015

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