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1. Lake Chichancanab Isotope and Mineralogy Data: Central American Drought and the Classic Maya Civilization [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2001-014]
Oxygen isotope and sediment composition data from Lake Chichancanab, Mexico. The data are interpreted as a moisture balance proxy, and indicate drought conditions in the years 800-1000 AD, corresponding ...


2. Eastern Oregon NOAA Climate Divisions 7 and 8 PDSI and Precipitation Reconstructions, 1705-1979 [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_96-029]
These data are reconstructed drought index and precipitation for NOAA Oregon climate divisions 7 and 8, derived from tree-ring data by Gregg M. Garfin and Dr. Malcolm K. Hughes of the Laboratory of ...


3. El Malpais Precipitation Reconstruction [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_96-002]
Water Year Annual Precipitation Reconstruction at El Malpais National Monument near Grants, New Mexico. The tree-ring chronology associated with this reconstruction can be found in the holdings ...


4. Multi-Millennial Nevada Precipitation Reconstruction [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2000-049]
This data set consists of reconstructed precipitation for Nevada Climate Division 3, annual July through June. Trees used for the reconstruction are bristlecone pine from Methuselah Walk, White ...


5. Southwestern USA Linear Regression and Neural Network Precipitation Reconstructions, NOAA/NCDC/WDC Paleoclimatology [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2002-080]
This data set consists of a comparison of the linear regression and neural network models for precipitation reconstruction from a network of tree ring chronologies. Data include the reconstructed ...


6. North American Drought Atlas: A History of Meteorological Drought Reconstructed from 835 Tree-Ring Chronologies for the past 2005 years [LDEO_NADA]
The North American Drought Atlas, is an HTML web browser program that provides access to 286 annual drought reconstructions extending as far back as 1,992 years into the past. The reconstructions ...


7. Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) Analyses of Multiple Global Precipitation Datasets at LDEO/IRI Climate Data Library [LDEO_SPI]   PARENT DIF
The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI; McKee et al. 1993) is the number of standard deviations that observed cumulative precipitation deviates from the climatological average. The index is based ...


8. Climate Since AD 1500 Database, WDC Paleoclimatology [EARTH_LAND_NGDC_PALEOCLIM1500AD]   CHILD DIFs
This data set contains the data described in various chapters of the book: CLIMATE SINCE A.D. 1500 Edited by Raymond S. Bradley and Philip D. Jones published ...


9. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) Climate Data Library [LDEO]
The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) Climate Data Library contains a wide variety of primarily oceanographic and atmospheric data sets. All of the data is available online and most ...


10. Eastern Colorado Palmer Drought Severity Index Reconstruction, NOAA/NGDC/WDC Paleoclimatology [NOAA_NGDC_PALEO_WOODHOUSE]
This data set consists of Eastern Colorado May/June/July Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) Reconstruction based on tree ring chronologies in the western Great Plains and Front Range. ...


11. Tree-ring Carbon Isotope Data and Drought Maps for the U.S. Southwest [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2007-010]
Tree-ring widths have long been a useful North American drought proxy [e.g., Cook et al., 1999, 2004]. A potentially rich, new tree-ring proxy associated with the tree's leaf-level moisture status ...


12. Moon Lake Diatom Salinity-Drought Data, 350 BC - 1980 AD [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_1998-015]
Drought intensity and frequency on the Great Plains of North America inferred from Diatom derived salinity reconstructions in Moon Lake, North Dakota, USA (46 51' 27" N, 98 09' 30" W. ~35 ha, max. ...


13. Updated Streamflow Reconstructions for the Upper Colorado River Basin [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2006-50]
Updated proxy reconstructions of water year (October-September) streamflow for four key gauges in the Upper Colorado River Basin were generated using an expanded tree ring network and longer calibration ...


14. Jamestown-Roanoke Climate Reconstructions from WDC-A/Paleoclimatology [NOAA_NGDC_PALEO_JAMESTOWN]
This data set consists of reconstructions of July Palmer Hydrologic Drought Index (PHDI) data for two southern Virginia Coastal and Piedmont and two northern and central North Carolina coastal climate ...


15. Glacier National Park Summer Drought Reconstruction [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2006-008]
This data set consists of a reconstruction of summer drought based on tree-ring chronologies in Glacier National Park. Reconstructed parameter is Mean Summer Deficit (precipitation - potential evapotranspiration ...


16. Holocene Multidecadal and Multicentennial Droughts Affecting Northern California and Nevada, NOAA/NCDC/WDC Paleoclimatology [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2002-053]
This data set describes Holocene multidecadal and multicentennial droughts affecting Northern California and Nevada. The data consists of proxy drought data from lakes in the Great Basin region of ...


17. Northeastern Utah Palmer Drought Severity Index Reconstruction [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2003-043]
Northeastern Utah June Palmer Drought Severity Index reconstruction based on tree ring chronologies in and around the Uinta Basin. ABSTRACT (from the online documentation: These data are reconstructed ...


18. Southwestern USA Drought Index Reconstruction, 1200-1978 AD [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2000-053]
Tree Ring reconstruction of Southwestern USA drought scores, based on optimal interpolation. The reconstruction uses factor scores from a Principal Components Analysis (PCA) of time t and selected ...


19. U.S. Drought Area Index Reconstruction, 1700-1978 AD [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_1998-036]
U.S. Drought Area Index Reconstruction data set provides Drought(-) or Wetness(+) Area Index, defined as the the number of gridpoints (out of 154) that exceed PDSI thresholds, as defined in Cook, ...


20. Chihuahua Winter-Spring Precipitation Reconstruction 1647-1992 [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2003-058]
The state of Chihuahua lies in an arid to semiarid zone in the NW central plain of Mexico. Its agricultural economy is highly vulnerable to frequent droughts. In this study, we reconstruct winter-spring ...


21. Climate Over Past Millennia [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2004-085]
We review evidence for climate change over the past several millennia from instrumental and high-resolution climate "proxy" data sources and climate modeling studies. We focus on changes over the ...


22. North American Summer PDSI Reconstructions [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2004-045]
(from: Cook, et al. Long-Term Aridity Changes in the Western United States Science, Vol. 306, No. 5698, pp. 1015-1018, 5 November 2004.) The western United States is experiencing a severe multi-year ...


23. Southern and Midwestern USA Climate Reconstructions [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_94-024]
This data set contains six files of reconstructed drought Index, precipitation, river flow, and Southern Oscillation Index (SOI), derived from tree-ring data by Dr. D.W. Stahle and Dr. M. K. Cleaveland ...


24. North American Drought Variability PDSI Reconstructions [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2000-074]
Tree Ring reconstructions of Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) across the continental United States and bordering areas of Canada and Mexico. Drought variability study for the last ca. 100 years ...


25. Rainfall and drought in equatorial east Africa during the past 1,100 years, NOAA/NGDC/PAGES [NOAA_NGDC_PAGES_AFRICA_DROUGHT]
This data set is a decade-scale reconstruction of rainfall and drought in equatorial east Africa over the past 1,100 years, based on lake-level and salinity fluctuations of Lake Naivasha (Kenya) inferred ...


26. Southern Manitoba Annual Precipitation Reconstruction, NOAA/NCDC/WDC Paleoclimatology [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2002-060]
This data set consists of Southern Manitoba annual (August-July) precipitation reconstruction at Winnipeg, based on tree ring chronologies from living, archaeological, and sub-fossil samples from ...


27. Palmer Drought Severity Index (PSDI) from LDEO/IRI Climate Data Library [LDEO_PDSI]
The Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) is devised by Palmer (1965) to represent the severity of dry and wet spells over the U.S. based on monthly temperature and precipitation data as well as the ...


28. Obliquely rotated drought factor scores based on 23 PDSI reconstructions for the eastern United States, Climate Since A.D. 1500 Database, WDC Paleoclimatology [NOAA_WDCPALEO_CLIM1500_CH17]   PARENT DIF
Obliquely rotated drought factor scores based on 23 PDSI reconstructions for the eastern United States (as shown in Figure 17.3 of Bradley and Jones (1992)).


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