Tree-rings and people - different views on the 1540 Megadrought. Reply to Buntgen et al. 2015

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PFISTER Christian WETTER Otakar BRÁZDIL Rudolf DOBROVOLNÝ Petr GLASER R. LUTERBACHER Juerg SENEVIRATNE SI. ZORITA E. ALCOFORADO MJ. BARRIENDOS M. BIEBER U. BURMEISTER KH. CAMENISCH C. CONTINO A. GRUNEWALD U. HERGET J. HIMMELSBACH I. LABBÉ T. LIMANÓWKA Danuta LITZENBURGER L. KISS Andrea KOTYZA Oldřich NORDLI O. PRIBYL K. RETSO D. RIEMANN D. ROHR Christian SIEGFRIED W. SPRING JL. SODERBERG J. WAGNER S. WERNER JP.

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Popis Büntgen et al. (2015; hereinafter B15) present the result of new research which question the results of Wetter et al. 2014, (hereinafter W14) and Wetter et al. (2013, hereinafter W13)regarding European climate in 1540. B15 conclude from tree-ring evidence that the results based on documentary data of W14 probably overstated the intensity and duration of the 1540 drought event. W14 termed it Megadrought because of its extreme duration and spatial extent compared to other drought events in central Europe, although they note that the term is generally used for decadal rather than for single-year droughts (Seneviratne et al. 2012). We take the opportunity to recall the following issues. Firstly, when dealing with drought the complexity of this phenomenon should be kept in mind. Meteorological drought defined as a large negative precipitation anomaly during a certain period can trigger agricultural, hydrological, groundwater and socioeconomic droughts. Lloyd-Hughes (2013] and references cited herein) concluded that any workable objective definition of drought does not exist. To quantify droughts, various indices based on precipitation, temperature and evapotranspiration are used such as the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), Z-index and PDSI. Their calculation depends on different periods (seasons, combination of months) and so different indices may classify the same drought episode differently (e.g. Brázdil et al.2014).
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