We find that
years with a negative PMDI anomaly exceeding — 1.0 SDs (hereafter «1 - SD
drought») have occurred approximately twice as often in the past two decades as in the preceding century (six events in 1995 — 2014
= 30 %
of years; 14 events in 1896 — 1994
= 14 %
of years)(Fig. 1A and Fig.