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Disruption of Drought Teleconnections Between ENSO‐Influenced Regions Around 1700 CE Open

Max C. A. Torbenson, David W. Stahle, Edward R. Cook, Benjamin I. Cook, Ulf Büntgen , et al. · 2025

Our understanding of pre‐modern El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variability is reliant on proxy records, often distant from the center of ENSO activity in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Here, we assess the relationship between reconstru…

Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene Open

Benjamin I. Cook, Jason E. Smerdon, Edward R. Cook, Park Williams, Kevin J. Anchukaitis , et al. · 2025

Global Warming Is Likely Affecting Regional Drought Across Eurasia Open

Kate Marvel, Benjamin I. Cook, Edward R. Cook · 2025

While rising global temperatures have altered global drought risk and are projected to continue to change large‐scale hydroclimate, it has proved difficult to detect the influence of external factors on drought‐relevant variables at region…

Tree Rings Reveal ENSO in the Last Millennium Open

Edward R. Cook, Mark A. Cane · 2024

We present new climate field reconstructions (CFR) of tropical Pacific ENSO sea surface temperatures (HadISST) for the boreal winter season using a circum‐Pacific tree‐ring network from known El Niño rainfall impact regions. We use two dif…

A 561-yr (1461-2022 CE) summer temperature reconstruction for Mid-Atlantic-Northeast USA shows connections to volcanic forcing and atmospheric circulation Open

Grant L. Harley, Justin T. Maxwell, Karen E. King, Shelly A. Rayback, Edward R. Cook , et al. · 2024

Contextualizing current increases in Northern Hemisphere temperatures is precluded by the short instrumental record of the past ca. 120 years and the dearth of temperature-sensitive proxy records, particularly at lower latitudes south of <…

Reconstructed Late Summer Maximum Temperatures for the Southeastern United States From Tree‐Ring Blue Intensity Open

Karen E. King, Grant L. Harley, Justin T. Maxwell, Shelly A. Rayback, Edward R. Cook , et al. · 2024

Over recent decades, the southeastern United States (Southeast) has become increasingly well represented by the terrestrial climate proxy record. However, while the paleo proxy records capture the region's hydroclimatic history over the la…

Climate and humans interact to shape the fire regime of a chir pine (Pinus roxburghii) forest in eastern Bhutan Open

Karma Tenzin, Craig R. Nitschke, Kathryn Allen, Paul J. Krusic, Edward R. Cook , et al. · 2024

Background Chir pine ( Pinus roxburghii Sarg.) forests are distributed in the dry valleys of Bhutan Himalaya. In the past, these forests have been heavily influenced by human activities such as grazing, burning, resin tapping, and collecti…

Global Warming Is Likely Affecting Regional Drought across Eurasia Open

Kate Marvel, Benjamin I. Cook, Edward R. Cook · 2024

While rising global temperatures have altered global drought risk and are projected to continue to change large-scale hydroclimate, it has proved difficult to detect the influence of warming on drought-relevant variables at regional scales…

Tree Rings Reveal ENSO in the Last Millennium Open

Edward R. Cook, Mark A. Cane · 2024

Tree-ring series from ENSO rainfall impact regions reconstruct the tropical Pacific SST field with a high degree of skill back to 1100 CE. 2. Two very different reconstruction methods produce similar results and each can only reconstruct t…

The IPCC’s reductive Common Era temperature history Open

Jan Esper, Jason E. Smerdon, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Kathryn Allen, Edward R. Cook , et al. · 2024

Common Era temperature variability has been a prominent component in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports over the last several decades and was twice featured in their Summary for Policymakers. A single reconstruction of mean …

Eastern USA summer temperatures since 1461 CE show connections to volcanic forcing and jet stream dynamics Open

Grant L. Harley, Justin T. Maxwell, Karen J. King, Shelly A. Rayback, Edward R. Cook , et al. · 2024

Contextualizing current increases in Northern Hemisphere temperatures is precluded by the short instrumental record of the past ca. 120 years and the dearth of temperature-sensitive proxy records, particularly at lower latitudes south of <…

Correction to: Drought and deluge: the recurrence of hydroclimate extremes during the past 600 years in eastern Australia’s Natural Resource Management (NRM) clusters Open

Jonathan Palmer, Danielle C. Verdon‐Kidd, Kathryn Allen, Philippa Higgins, Benjamin I. Cook , et al. · 2024

Increasing prevalence of hot drought across western North America since the 16th century Open

Karen E. King, Edward R. Cook, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Benjamin I. Cook, Jason E. Smerdon , et al. · 2024

Across western North America (WNA), 20th-21st century anthropogenic warming has increased the prevalence and severity of concurrent drought and heat events, also termed hot droughts. However, the lack of independent spatial reconstructions…

Correcting the Heartwood-Sapwood Transition in Blue Intensity Measurements with Change Point Detection Methods Open

Hung Nguyen, Rory Abernethy, Rob Wilson, Daniel L. Druckenbrod, Kathryn Allen , et al. · 2024

Drought and deluge: the recurrence of hydroclimate extremes during the past 600 years in eastern Australia’s Natural Resource Management (NRM) clusters Open

Jonathan Palmer, Danielle C. Verdon‐Kidd, Kathryn Allen, Philippa Higgins, Benjamin I. Cook , et al. · 2023

Recent extremes of flood and drought across Australia have raised questions about the recurrence of such rare events and highlighted the importance of understanding multi-decadal climate variability. However, instrumental records over the …

A multifault earthquake threat for the Seattle metropolitan region revealed by mass tree mortality Open

Bryan A. Black, Jessie K. Pearl, Charlotte Pearson, Patrick T. Pringle, David Frank , et al. · 2023

Compound earthquakes involving simultaneous ruptures along multiple faults often define a region’s upper threshold of maximum magnitude. Yet, the potential for linked faulting remains poorly understood given the infrequency of these events…

The Historical Development of Large‐Scale Paleoclimate Field Reconstructions Over the Common Era Open

Jason E. Smerdon, Edward R. Cook, Nathan Steiger · 2023

Climate field reconstructions (CFRs) combine modern observational data with paleoclimatic proxies to estimate climate variables over spatiotemporal grids during time periods when widespread observations of climatic conditions do not exist.…

Examining past and projecting future: an 800-year streamflow reconstruction of the Australian Murray river Open

Philippa Higgins, Jonathan Palmer, Martin S. Andersen, Chris Turney, Fiona Johnson , et al. · 2023

Managing water security and sustaining ecosystem functions under future warming poses substantial challenges for semi-arid regions. The Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) is particularly vulnerable given the considerable demand for water that unde…

Climate and humans interact to shape the fire regime of a chir pine forest in eastern Bhutan Open

Karma Tenzin, Craig R. Nitschke, Kathryn Allen, Paul J. Krusic, Edward R. Cook , et al. · 2023

Background: Chir pine (pinus roxburghii Sarg.) forests are distributed in the dry valleys of Bhutan Himalaya. These forests are heavily influenced by biotic activities such as grazing, resin tapping and NWFP (non-wood forests produce) coll…

Unprecedented 21st century heat across the Pacific Northwest of North America Open

Karen J. Heeter, Grant L. Harley, John T. Abatzoglou, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Edward R. Cook , et al. · 2023

Extreme summer temperatures are increasingly common across the Northern Hemisphere and inflict severe socioeconomic and biological consequences. In summer 2021, the Pacific Northwest region of North America (PNW) experienced a 2-week-long …

Global wood anatomical perspective on the onset of the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA) in the mid-6th century CE Open

Ulf Büntgen, Alan Crivellaro, Dominique Arseneault, Mike Baillie, David J. Barclay , et al. · 2022

Linked to major volcanic eruptions around 536 and 540 CE, the onset of the Late Antique Little Ice Age has been described as the coldest period of the past two millennia. The exact timing and spatial extent of this exceptional cold phase a…

Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene Open

Benjamin I. Cook, Jason E. Smerdon, Edward R. Cook, Park Williams, Kevin J. Anchukaitis , et al. · 2022

Dendrochronological dating and provenance determination of a 19th century whaler in Patagonia (Puerto Madryn, Argentina) Open

Ignacio A. Mundo, Cristian Murray, Mónica Grosso, Mukund Palat Rao, Edward R. Cook , et al. · 2022

The feasibility of reconstructing hydroclimate over West Africa using tree-ring chronologies in the Mediterranean region Open

Boniface Fosu, Edward R. Cook, Michela Biasutti, Brendan M. Buckley, Sharon E. Nicholson · 2022

Dendrochronology in West Africa has not yet been developed despite encouraging reports suggesting the potential for long tree-ring reconstructions of hydroclimate in the tropics. This paper shows that even in the absence of local tree chro…

Reply to Weiss: Tree-ring stable oxygen isotopes suggest an increase in Asian monsoon rainfall at 4.2 ka BP Open

Bao Yang, Chun Qin, Achim Bräuning, Timothy J. Osborn, Valérie Trouet , et al. · 2022

Microbial communities are found throughout the biosphere, from human guts to glaciers, from soil to activated sludge. Understanding the statistical properties of such diverse communities can pave the way to elucidate the common mechanisms …

The Feasibility of Reconstructing Hydroclimate over West Africa using Tree-Ring Chronologies in the Mediterranean Region Open

Boniface Fosu, Edward R. Cook, Michela Biasutti, Brendan M. Buckley, Sharon E. Nicholson · 2022

Dendrochronology in West Africa has not yet been developed despite encouraging reports suggesting the potential for long tree-ring reconstructions of hydroclimate in the tropics. This paper shows that even in the absence of local tree chro…

Evaluating the dendroclimatological potential of blue intensity on multiple conifer species from Tasmania and New Zealand Open

Rob Wilson, Kathy Allen, Patrick J. Baker, Gretel Boswijk, Brendan M. Buckley , et al. · 2021

We evaluate a range of blue intensity (BI) tree-ring parameters in eight conifer species (12 sites) from Tasmania and New Zealand for their dendroclimatic potential, and as surrogate wood anatomical proxies. Using a dataset of ca. 10–15 tr…

Placing the east-west North American aridity gradient in a multi-century context Open

Daniel A. Bishop, Park Williams, Richard Seager, Edward R. Cook, D. M. Peteet , et al. · 2021

Instrumental records indicate a century-long trend towards drying over western North America and wetting over eastern North America. A continuation of these trends into the future would have significant hydroclimatic and socioeconomic cons…

Changing hydroclimate dynamics and the 19th to 20th century wetting trend in the English Channel region of northwest Europe Open

Serena R. Scholz, Richard Seager, Mingfang Ting, Yochanan Kushnir, Jason E. Smerdon , et al. · 2021

Dendroarchaeological analysis of the Terminal Warehouse in New York City reveals a history of long-distance timber transport during the Gilded Age Open

Caroline Leland, Mukund Palat Rao, Edward R. Cook, Benjamin I. Cook, Bryan M. Lapidus , et al. · 2021

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