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David Meko applies tree-ring data to study the variability of climate and hydroclimate on time scales of centuries to millennia. He works primarily on streamflow reconstruction, and specializes in statistical model development. He has also collected tree-ring sites across western North America and contributed tree-ring chronologies to the International Tree-Ring Data Bank. He regularly teaches a course in time series analysis.Show Less
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Research Opportunities
- Undergrad Research Opp Paid, Volunteer
Grant: Not Listed
Climatology, hydrology, climate variability, tree rings, water supply Prerequisite Courses: none Maj... - Undergrad Research Opp Paid, Volunteer
Grant: Not Listed
Climatology, hydrology, climate variability, tree rings, water supply Prerequisite Courses: none Maj...
Courses
- ATSAApplied Time Series Analysis
Grants
- Collaborative Research: Fresh Water and Heat Fluxes to the Arctic Ocean Modeled with Tree-Ring Proxies
Co-Investigator (COI)
2019
$781.2K
Active - Collaborative Research: P2C2--Where Has the Water Gone? Results from a Watershed Model with Dendroclimatic Inputs
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$209.8K
Active - Catalyzing Virtual Partnership for Environmental Studies
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$10.0K
- Using Anatomical Features in Hackberry (Celtis Laevigata Var. Reticulata) to Reconstruct Dryland Riparian Dynamics
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$3.0K
- Ob River Flood History from West Siberia Tree Rings
Principal Investigator (PI)
2018
$49.4K
- Collaborative Research: Interannual and Seasonal Variability of Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada from Tree Rings
Principal Investigator (PI)
2018
$33.5K
- Southern California Reconstruction
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$589.6K
- Collaborative Research: Interannual and Seasonal Variability of Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada from Tree Rings
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$354.9K
- Millennial context for recent hydroclimatic changes in Ob River basin from tree rings
Principal Investigator (PI)
2013
$13.8K
- Collaborative Research: P2C2 Past and Future Drought Variability in the Mediterranean Basin
Co-Investigator (COI)
2011
$534.0K
Books
- Advances in Paleohydrology Research and Applications, Special Issue of Journal of Hydrology, vol. 529, Part 2, pages 431– 684
2015
News
- Widespread Droughts Affect Southern California Water Sources Six Times a Century
2020
- Drought in Eastern Mediterranean Worst of Past 900 Years
2016
- UA Center Studies the Link Between Climate and Civilization
2015
- Southwest May Face Megadrought in this Century, UA Researchers Find
2014
- Monsoon Failure Key to Long Droughts in Southwest
2013
- Climate Change Could Cripple Southwestern Forests
2012
- 20th Century One of Driest in Nine Centuries for Northwest Africa
2010
- Expectations for the Southwest: Hot with Decades of Drought
2010
- The Drought Detectives
2009
- U.S. Interior Department Honors UA Researchers
2009
- National Geographic Highlights UA Tree-Ring Laboratory
2008
- Former Engineering Dean Heads NRC Panel on Southwestern Water Problems
2007
- Colorado River Streamflow History Reveals Megadrought Before 1490
2007
- Historic Colorado River Streamflows Reconstructed Back to 1490
2006
- Past Droughts Geographically Widespread in the West, According to Tree-Ring Data
2005
- New TRIF Grants to Fund More Water Research
2004
- Drought in the West Linked to Warmer Temperatures
2004
- Prop. 301 to Fund Water Research at UA
2003
- Tree Rings Record Monsoon Strength in Southwest
2001
- Year in Review 2001: College of Science
2001
Publications (85)
Recent
- Species Sensitivity to Hydrologic Whiplash in The Tree-Ring Record of the High Sierra Nevada
2023
- Tree rings and observations suggest no stable cycles in Sierra Nevada cool-season precipitation
2021
- Climate change and tree growth in the Khakass-Minusinsk Depression (South Siberia) impacted by large water reservoirs
2021
- Multi-century tree-ring anatomical evidence reveals increasing frequency and amplitude of spring discharge and flood in eastern boreal Canada
2021
- A mul-timillennial snow water equivalent reconstruction from giant sequoia tree rings
2021
- Spatial classification of moisture-sensitive pine and larch tree-ring chronologies within Khakass-Minusinsk Depression, South Siberia.
2021
- The limits of freely-available tree-ring chronologies
2020
- Direct versus indirect tree-ring reconstruction of annual discharge of Chemora River, Algeria
2020
- A multi-century Sierra Nevada snowpack reconstruction modeled using upper-elevation coniferous tree rings
2020
- The 2019 International Summer School Tree Rings, Climate, Natural Resources, and Human Interactions, Warsaw, Poland
2019
- Two reconstructions of August-July precipitation for Central Norther Arizona from tree rings
2019
- Annual climatological indices and their association with conifers radial growth at the Sierra Nevada, California
2019
- Tree-ring reconstruction of Lhasa River streamflow reveals 472 years of hydrologic change on southern Tibetan Plateau
2019
- Runoff variations in Lake Balkhash Basin, Central Asia, 1779 to 2015, inferred from tree rings
2018
- Disentangling seasonal and interannual legacies from inferred patterns of forest water and carbon cycling using tree‐ring stable isotopes
2018
- Tree growth and vegetation activity at the ecosystem-scale in the eastern Mediterranean
2017
- Variation of the hydrological regime of Bele-Shira closed basin in Southern Siberia and its reflection in the radial growth of Larix sibirica
2017
- Reconstruction of Ob river, Russia, discharge from ring widths of floodplain trees
2016
- Elevation-Layered Dendroclimatic Signal in Eastern Mediterranean Tree Rings
2016
- Spatiotemporal drought variability in the Mediterranean over the last 900 years
2016
- Dendroclimatology and wheat production in Algeria
2016
- Is worst-case scenario streamflow drought underestimated in British Columbia? A 332-year perspective for the south coast, derived from tree-rings
2016
- Alternative standardization approaches to improving streamflow reconstructions with ring-width indices of riparian trees
2015
- Editorial note -- special issue Advances in Paleohydrology Research and Applications
2015
- Assessing the Risk of Persistent Drought Using Climate Model Simulations and Paleoclimate Data
2014
- Six centuries of May-July precipitation in Cyprus from tree rings
2014
- Dendroclimatic potential of plains cottonwood (Populus deltoides subsp monilifera) from the Northern Great Plains, USA
2014
- Dendroclimatology in the Eastern Mediterranean
2014
- Spatial patterns of eastern Mediterranean climate influence on tree growth
2014
- Corrigendum to Tree-ring reconstructed hydroclimate of the Upper Klamath basin [J. Hydrol. 495 (2013) 13-22]
2013
- Dendrochronology course in Valsaín forest, Segovia, Spain
2013
- Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality
2013
- Tree-ring reconstructed hydroclimate of the Upper Klamath basin
2013
- North American monsoon precipitation reconstructed from tree-ring latewood
2013
- Sierra San Pedro Martir, Baja California, cool-season precipitation reconstructed from earlywood width of Abies concolor tree rings
2013
- The ancient blue oak woodlands of California: Longevity and hydroclimatic history
2013
- Tree rings and multiseason drought variability in the lower Rio Grande Basin, USA
2013
- Process based model sheds light on climate sensitivity of Mediterranean tree-ring width
2012
- Dendrochronology and links to streamflow
2012
- Millennial precipitation reconstruction for the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, reveals changingb drought signal
2011
- Inferring precipitation-anomaly gradients from tree rings
2011
- Seascorr: A MATLAB program for identifying the seasonal climate signal in an annual tree-ring time series
2011
- Drought duration and frequency in the U.S. Corn Belt during the last millennium (AD 992-2004)
2011
- A tree-ring reconstruction of streamflow in the Santa Fe River, New Mexico
2011
- Latewood chronology development for summer-moisture reconstruction in the US Southwest
2011
- Spatiotemporal drought variability in northwestern Africa over the last nine centuries
2011
- The seasonality of precipitation signals embedded within the North American Drought Atlas
2010
- A bimillennial-length tree-ring reconstruction of precipitation for the Tavaputs Plateau, Northeastern Utah
2010
- A 1,200-year perspective of 21st century drought in southwestern North America
2010
- The tree-ring record of drought on the Canadian Prairies
2009
- Cool- and warm-season precipitation reconstructions over western New Mexico
2009
- Regional tree growth and inferred summer climate in the Winnipeg River basin, Canada, since AD 1783
2008
- Long term context for recent drought in northwestern Africa
2008
- Precipitation reconstruction for Northwestern Tunisia from tree rings
2008
- Climate warming and 21st-century drought in southwestern North America
2008
- Medieval drought in the Upper Colorado River Basin
2007
- Hydrologic model framework for water resources planning in the Santa Cruz River, Southern Arizona
2007
- Tree-ring inferences on water-level fluctuations of Lake Athabasca
2006
- Updated streamflow reconstructions for the Upper Colorado River Basin
2006
- Tree-ring footprint of joint hydrologic drought in Sacramento and Upper Colorado river basins, western USA
2005
- Long-term aridity changes in the western United States
2004
- Climate spatial variability and data resolution in a semi-arid watershed, south-eastern Arizona
2003
- Holocene multidecadal and multicentennial droughts affecting Northern California and Nevada
2002
- Pilot study of latewood-width of conifers as an indicator of variability of summer rainfall in the North American monsoonregion
2001
- Sacramento River flow reconstructed to A.D. 869 from tree rings
2001
- Drought reconstructions for the continental United States
1999
- A 396 year reconstruction of precipitation in southern Jordan:
1999
- North-South precipitation patterns in western North America on interannual-to-decadal timescales
1998
- Number of winter precipitation days reconstructed from southwestern tree rings
1997
- A new assessment of possible solar and lunar forcing of the bidecadal drought rhythm in the western United States
1997
- Dendroclimatic reconstruction with time varying predictor subsets of tree indices
1997
- Dendroclimatic potential in the northern Great Plains
1996
- Statistical challenges to tree-ring reconstruction of climatic time series
1996
- Tree-ring reconstructions of past drought across the coterminous United States: Tests of a regression method and calibration/verification results
1996
- Tree-ring reconstruction of Upper Gila River discharge
1995
- The segment length curse' in long tree-ring chronology development for palaeoclimatic studies
1995
- Tree-ring record of severe sustained drought
1995
- Spatial patterns of tree-growth anomalies in the United States and southeastern Canada
1993
- Periodicity in tree rings from the Corn Belt.
1985
- Secular variations in streamflow in the western United States
1984
- Drought recurrence in the Great Plains as reconstructed from long-term tree-ring records
1983
- A tree-ring reconstruction of drought in southern California
1980
- A long-term history of drought occurrence in western United States as inferred from tree rings
1975