{"id":5222,"date":"2015-11-19T10:39:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T15:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5222"},"modified":"2015-11-19T10:39:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T15:39:53","slug":"north-american-drought-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/11\/north-american-drought-atlas\/","title":{"rendered":"North American Drought Atlas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the conference I&#8217;m attending today, one of the speakers presented PDSI data derived from tree rings going back to about 400 AD.\u00a0 It is presented as a series of grid points across North America.\u00a0 If you are interested in a longer-term perspective on climate that goes back farther than the instrumental records, you might want to check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the link to the atlas:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu\/SOURCES\/.LDEO\/.TRL\/.NADA2004\/.pdsi-atlas.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu\/SOURCES\/.LDEO\/.TRL\/.NADA2004\/.pdsi-atlas.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The graph below shows the time series for the grid point in east central Georgia.\u00a0 It shows that the last century has been relatively wet compared to some periods in the past, particularly around 1200 AD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/tree-ring-chronology-of-drought-mid-GA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5223\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/tree-ring-chronology-of-drought-mid-GA-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"tree ring chronology of drought mid GA\" width=\"528\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/tree-ring-chronology-of-drought-mid-GA-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/tree-ring-chronology-of-drought-mid-GA-284x138.jpg 284w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/tree-ring-chronology-of-drought-mid-GA.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the conference I&#8217;m attending today, one of the speakers presented PDSI data derived from tree rings going back to about 400 AD.\u00a0 It is presented as a series of grid points across North America.\u00a0 If you are interested in a longer-term perspective on climate that goes back farther than the instrumental records, you might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5224,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions\/5224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}