Frequency and duration of historical droughts from the 16th to the 19th centuries in the Mexican Maya lands, Yucatan Peninsula

Mendoza, B.; García‐Acosta, Virginia; Velasco, Víctor Miguel Pérez; Jáuregui, Ernesto; Díaz-Sandoval, Rosa

doi:10.1007/s10584-006-9232-1

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“…El crecimiento anual está influenciado por las condiciones ambientales dominantes durante la formación de los mismos y hay reportes de diferentes partes del centro, norte, noreste y noroeste de México (Díaz et al, 2002;Cleaveland et al, 2003;González-Elizondo et al, 2005;Villanueva-Díaz et al, 2005Cerano-Paredes et al, 2009). Otros estudios documentan la relación entre las sequías históricas y modernas asociadas a la relación entre fenómenos como la Oscilación Multidecadal Atlántica (OMA), el Índice de Oscilación del Sur (IOS) y El Niño para el centro de México y la península de Yucatán (Mendoza et al, 2005(Mendoza et al, , 2007.…”

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“…Entre las sequías históricas reportadas coincidentes con las obtenidas para el LSMO se encuentran las sequías de 1524-1525 (García-Acosta et al, 2004) y la denominada mega-sequía de 1540-1570 (Therrell et al, 2006), las cuales, de acuerdo con Acuña-Soto et al (2002), causaron epidemias y carestía en el centro de México y Yucatán (Mendoza et al, 2005(Mendoza et al, , 2007. Para la cuenca de México, O'Hara y reportan niveles lacustres bajos durante 1524 y entre 1557 y 1559.…”

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“…(C) Índice de El Niño (Cook et al, 2009 García-Acosta et al, 2004;Mendoza et al, 2005). La sequía de 1661 está documentada para la península de Yucatán por Mendoza et al (2007), y en el sureste de Coahuila hay un periodo intenso de sequía de 1662-1670 (Constante . Para el noreste los datos dendrocronológicos indican sequías durante 1629-1632 y 1659-1670 (Villanueva- La comparación de los datos del LSMO con la reconstrucción de precipitación de invierno-primavera a partir de anillos de árboles en Chihuahua muestra coincidencia con el año de 1742 (Díaz et al, 2002).…”

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Registro de sequías históricas en el occidente de México con base en el análisis elemental de sedimentos lacustres: El caso del lago de Santa María del Oro

Sosa-Nájera¹,

Lozano‐García²,

Roy³

et al. 2010

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Registro de sequías históricas en el occidente de México con base en el análisis elemental de sedimentos lacustres: El caso del lago de Santa María del Oro

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Roy³

et al. 2010

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“…No correspondence is evident between the Antiguan chronology and a document-based drought time series for the Yucatan Peninsula (Mendoza et al, 2007), which reveals phases of no drought in the periods of 1774-1799 and 1855-1880 and one of frequent droughts in the period of 1800-1855. Similarly, comparison with rainfall measurements taken at Savanna-laMar, Jamaica, from 1760 to 1786 exhibits a lack of coherency (Fig.…”

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“…Chenoweth, 2006;Kilbourne et al, 2008), there are few comparable studies of precipitation variations. Research by Chenoweth (2003) and Mendoza et al (2007) for Jamaica and the Yucatan Peninsula respectively illustrate that historical records represent a valuable source of information about past rainfall variability. This paper presents the first extensive precipitation reconstruction in the Caribbean.…”

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Documentary-derived chronologies of rainfall variability in Antigua, Lesser Antilles, 1770–1890

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Abstract. This paper presents the first extensive reconstruction of precipitation variability in the Lesser Antilles using historical documentary sources. Over 13 250 items of documentation pertaining to Antigua from the period 1769–1890 were consulted, including missionary, plantation and governmental papers as well as contemporary scholarly publications. Based on the predominant meteorological conditions observed throughout the island, each "rain-year" (December–November) was assigned one of five classifications (very wet, wet, "normal", dry and very dry). Local weather references relating to seven plantations in central-eastern Antigua were grouped according to dry (December–April) and wet seasons (May–November), each of which were also categorised in the aforementioned manner. Results comprise individual island-wide and central-eastern Antiguan chronologies of relative precipitation levels, spanning the rain-years 1769–70 to 1889–90 and 1769–70 to 1853–54 respectively. The former is compared with available instrumental data for the years 1870–1890. Significant dry phases are identified in the rain-years 1775–80, 1788–91, 1820–22, 1834–37, 1844–45, 1859–60, 1862–64, 1870–74 and 1881–82, while wet episodes were 1771–74, 1833–34, 1837–38, 1841–44, 1845–46 and 1878–81. Evidence for major wet and dry spells is presented and findings are evaluated within wider historical and palaeoclimatic contexts.

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Two millennia of tropical cyclone‐induced mud layers in a northern Yucatán stalagmite: Multiple overlapping climatic hazards during the Maya Terminal Classic “megadroughts”

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Pyburn

Pinkey-Drobnis

et al. 2014

Geophysical Research Letters

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An annually laminated stalagmite from the northern Yucatán Peninsula contains mud layers from 256 cave flooding events over 2240 years. This new conservative proxy for paleotempestology recorded cave flooding events with a recurrence interval of 8.3 years during the twentieth century, with the greatest frequency during the twentieth century and the least frequent during the seventeenth century. Tropical cyclone (TC) events are unlikely to flood the cave during drought when the water table is depressed. Applying TC masking to the Chaac paleorainfall reconstruction suggests that the severity of the Maya "megadroughts" was underestimated. Without a high-resolution radiometric geochronology of individual local TC events, speleothem isotope records cannot resolve whether the Terminal Classic Period in the northern Maya Lowlands was punctuated by several brief drought breaks with normal TCs, or whether the region was very dry and peppered by unusually severe and frequent hurricane seasons.

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Frequency and duration of historical droughts from the 16th to the 19th centuries in the Mexican Maya lands, Yucatan Peninsula

Abstract: Using unprecedented catalogues of past severe drought data for the Yucatan Peninsula between 1502 and 1900 coming from historical written documentation, we identified five conspicuous time lapses with no droughts between

Cited by 67 publications

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Registro de sequías históricas en el occidente de México con base en el análisis elemental de sedimentos lacustres: El caso del lago de Santa María del Oro

Registro de sequías históricas en el occidente de México con base en el análisis elemental de sedimentos lacustres: El caso del lago de Santa María del Oro

Documentary-derived chronologies of rainfall variability in Antigua, Lesser Antilles, 1770–1890

Two millennia of tropical cyclone‐induced mud layers in a northern Yucatán stalagmite: Multiple overlapping climatic hazards during the Maya Terminal Classic “megadroughts”

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