property · PROP-REGIONAL-DROUGHT
Regional severe drought
A geographically bounded episode of unusually low moisture severe enough to threaten agriculture and storage systems.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: not recorded. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Research description
This property must be assigned to specific regions and date ranges. It must not be inherited automatically by the entire Mediterranean from one local proxy record.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides operational example
Severe multi-year drought coincident with Hittite collapse around 1198-1196 BC — Sturt W. Manning, Cindy Kocik, Brita Lorentzen, Jed P. Sparks (2023)
Locator: annual-resolution central Anatolian drought record