Fig. 3: Precipitation variability over the last millennium.
From: Past megadroughts in central Europe were longer, more severe and less warm than modern droughts
a Regional mean Old World Drought Atlas (OWDA)21 PDSI index for central Europe (3°E-20°E, 45°N-56°N, black line) for the 1000–2012 period and the instrumental June through August scPDSI50 (solid red line) for the 1901–2018 period; Decadal frequency of the seasonal precipitation over the central part of Europe based on proxy reconstructions and documentary evidence: (b) winter; (c) spring; (d) summer and (e) autumn. The seasonal precipitation data is based on the seasonal decadal precipitation index from Glaser (2013)28.
