Monsoon drought over Java, Indonesia, during the past two centuries

R  D'Arrigo; Rob Wilson; J  Palmer; P  Krusic; A  Curtis; J  Sakulich; S  Bijaksana; S  Zulaikah; L O  Ngkoimani

doi:10.1029/2005GL025465

Monsoon drought over Java, Indonesia, during the past two centuries

R D'Arrigo, Rob Wilson, J Palmer, P Krusic, A Curtis, J Sakulich, S Bijaksana, S Zulaikah, L O Ngkoimani

Scottish Oceans Institute

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Abstract

Monsoon droughts, which often coincide with El Nino warm events, can have profound impacts on the populations of Southeast Asia. Improved understanding and prediction of such events can be aided by high-resolution proxy climate records, but these are scarce for the tropics. Here we reconstruct the boreal autumn (October-November) Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) for Java, Indonesia (1787-1988). This reconstruction is based on nine ring-width chronologies derived from living teak trees growing on the islands of Java and Sulawesi, and one coral delta O-18 series from Lombok. The PDSI reconstruction correlates significantly with El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-related sea surface temperatures and other historical and instrumental records of tropical climate, reflecting the strong coupling between the climate of Indonesia and the large scale tropical Indo-Pacific climate system.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	-
Number of pages	4
Journal	Geophysical Research Letters
Volume	33
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1029/2005GL025465
Publication status	Published - 24 Feb 2006

Keywords

SOUTHERN-OSCILLATION INDEX
SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE
AIR-TEMPERATURE
EL-NINO
RAINFALL
PREDICTABILITY

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Monsoon drought over Java, Indonesia, during the past two centuries

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