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Articles | Volume 14, issue 12
Articles | Volume 14, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1915-2018
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11 Dec 2018
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Documentary data and the study of past droughts: a global state of the art

Rudolf Brázdil, Andrea Kiss, Jürg Luterbacher, David J. Nash, and Ladislava Řezníčková

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The paper presents a worldwide state of the art of droughts fluctuations based on documentary data. It gives an overview of achievements related to different kinds of documentary evidence with their examples and an overview of papers presenting long-term drought chronologies over the individual continents, analysis of the most outstanding drought events, the influence of external forcing and large-scale climate drivers, and human impacts and responses. It recommends future research directions.
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