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A ~700 years perspective on the 21st century drying in the eastern part of Europe based on δ18O in tree ring cellulose

Viorica Nagavciuc Orcid Logo, Monica Ionita Orcid Logo, Zoltán Kern Orcid Logo, Danny McCarroll, Ionel Popa Orcid Logo

Communications Earth and Environment, Volume: 3, Issue: 1

Swansea University Author: Danny McCarroll

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DOI (Published version): 10.1038/s43247-022-00605-4

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Numerical simulations indicate that extreme climate events (e.g., droughts, floods, heat waves) will increase in a warming world, putting enormous pressure on society and political decision-makers. To provide a long-term perspective on the variability of these extreme events, here we use a ~700 year...

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Published in: Communications Earth and Environment
ISSN: 2662-4435
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2022
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62008
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Abstract: Numerical simulations indicate that extreme climate events (e.g., droughts, floods, heat waves) will increase in a warming world, putting enormous pressure on society and political decision-makers. To provide a long-term perspective on the variability of these extreme events, here we use a ~700 years tree-ring oxygen isotope chronology from Eastern Europe, in combination with paleo-reanalysis data, to show that the summer drying over Eastern Europe observed over the last ~150 years is to the best of our knowledge unprecedented over the last 700 years. This drying is driven by a change in the pressure patterns over Europe, characterized by a shift from zonal to a wavier flow around 1850CE, leading to extreme summer droughts and aridification. To our knowledge, this is the first and longest reconstruction of drought variability, based on stable oxygen isotopes in the tree-ring cellulose, for Eastern Europe, helping to fill a gap in the spatial coverage of paleoclimate reconstructions.
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Funders: Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
Issue: 1

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