Is the European 2026 drought unprecedented in the last millennium?
The 2026 drought stands out as a rare extreme and can be expected to happen about once every 500 years - if we were still living in the pre-anthropogenic climate-change world. But we don’t.
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Is the European 2026 drought unprecedented in the last millennium? | Geocomputation and Earth Observation
Patricia Helpap recently published her Master thesis work in AGU Advances (Helpap et al., 2026). She contrasted the droughts of the recent past (2000-2024) versus an extended context, covering the pas...