Royal Meteorological Society: Can Tree-ring Hydroclimate Reconstructions Characterise Extreme Drought in East Anglia?

This Royal Meteorological Society meeting explores how tree-ring hydroclimate reconstructions can help characterise extreme drought in East Anglia. The talk looks at historical drought patterns and asks how reconstructions can extend the climate record beyond the instrumental period, giving a longer-term view of drought frequency, severity and duration.

The speaker compares four tree-ring based precipitation and drought-index reconstructions from East Anglia and Southern England, assessing how consistent and reliable they are when set against one another. The session also considers whether random error structures can reproduce observed instrumental climate behaviour, helping to test for systematic bias.

It is aimed at people interested in weather and climate, and forms part of the Society’s meetings programme for topical discussion and knowledge exchange.