Researchers study 6,000-year-long record of drought in the Pacific Northwest
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 17:31
in Earth & Climate
A group of researchers have studied the history of drought in the Pacific Northwest during the last 6,000 years, a time that spans the mid-Holocene geological epoch to the present. The goal of the research was to improve the understanding of drought history because the instrumental record of drought only goes back a few hundred years and at relatively few locations.