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My primary research focus is climatic variability over the last ~2,000 years and its impact on human systems and forest ecosystems. Amongst a range of related topics, my research team uses tree rings to reconstruct (1) atmospheric circulation patterns(link is external) , (2) extreme climate events(link is external), including wildfire(link is external), and (3) the terrestrial carbon cycle.(link is external) Innovative aspects of my research include multi-proxy approaches (i.e., combining tree-ring data with other high-resolution proxies(link is external) and documentary data(link is external)) and synchronization with the approaches used by climate process and modeling experts (e.g., reconstruction of the North Atlantic(link is external) and North Pacific Jet (link is external)stream). I cover all of these topics in a broad audience book about tree rings, climate history, and human history. Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings (link is external)will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in April 2020. You can find more info about my research and my research team at http://trouetlab.arizona.edu/Show Less
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Courses
- IGCIntroduction to Global Change
- IDIntroduction to Dendrochronology
Grants
- Collaborative Research: Extending tree-ring based reconstructions of Atlantic Gulf Basin hydroclimate over the Common Era using old-growth sinker wood
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$400.3K
Active - ACcurate Temperature REconstructions Based On and Abrupt Climate Change Mapping in Tree-Rings from Ancient Bristlecone Pines, the Longest-Living Organisms in The World [ACTREAL]
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$46.4K
Active - CAREER: Tree-Ring Based Reconstruction of Northern Hemisphere Jetstream Variability
Principal Investigator (PI)
2014
$635.3K
- Estimating Carbon Flux and Storage: Constraint of the Community Land Model using Observations at Different Temporal Scales
Co-Investigator (COI)
2013
$952.4K
- Influence of interannual North Pacific Jet variability on Sierra Nevada Fire regimens
Principal Investigator (PI)
2013
$126.6K
- North American Dendroclimatic Data: Compilation, Characterization, and Spatiotemporal Analysis
Principal Investigator (PI)
2011
$4.7K
News
- Increased heat and drought stunt tropical trees, a major carbon sink
2022
- California's 'climate whiplash' has been worsening for 50 years and will continue
2022
- New Research on Tropical Cyclone Extremes Could Aid in Disaster Planning
2021
- Here's What to Expect From All-Virtual Tucson Festival of Books
2021
- Water, Not Temperature, Limits Global Forest Growth as Climate Warms
2019
- Wildfire Risk in California No Longer Coupled to Winter Precipitation
2019
- Jet Stream Changes Since 1960s Linked to More Extreme Weather
2018
- Tracking the Movement of the Tropics 800 Years into the Past
2018
- Study: North American Forests Aren't Saviors From Climate Change
2016
- Shipwrecks, Tree Rings Reveal Caribbean Hurricanes
2016
- Meet 'Adonis,' Europe’s Oldest Known Living Tree
2016
- Forest Fires in Sierra Nevada Driven by Past Land Use
2016
- Sierra Nevada Snowpack Lowest in 5 Centuries
2015
- UA Delegation to Attend Climate Conference
2015
- UA Center Studies the Link Between Climate and Civilization
2015
Publications (106)
Recent
- Strong wind drives grassland fire in China
2021
- The North American tree-ring fire-scar network
2021
- Recent increases in tropical cyclone precipitation extremes over the US East Coast.
2021
- Thank You to Our 2020 Peer Reviewers
2021
- The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions
2021
- Operational Short- to Medium-Range (SR2MR) Streamflow Forecasting for the Upper Zambezi Basin, Africa
2021
- Jet stream position explains regional anomalies in European forest productivity
2021
- Dry-season climate drives interannual variability in tropical tree growth.
2021
- Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years.
2021
- Length of growing season is modulated by Northern Hemisphere jet stream variability.
2021
- Enhanced winter, spring, and summer hydroclimate variability across Califronia from 1940 to 2019
2021
- ENSO modulates wildfire activity in China.
2021
- Increased water use efficiency leads to decreased precipitation sensitivity of tree growth, but is offset by high temperatures
2021
- Fire history of Pinus nigra in Western Anatolia: a first dendro-chronological study
2021
- Seasonal divergence between soil water availability and atmospheric moisture recorded in intra-annual tree-ring δ18O extremes
2020
- Multiscale northern westerlies drift in Europe since the middle Holocene
2020
- Intra-annual tree-ring d18O and d13C as ecophysiological indicators in humid subtropical China
2020
- Recent anthropogenic curtailing of Yellow River runoff and sediment load is unprecedented over the past 500 years.
2020
- Climate sensitivity of understory trees differs from overstory trees in temperate mesic forests.
2020
- Thank You to Our 2019 Peer Reviewers
2020
- Host-specific responses to climate define symbioses in boreal forests
2020
- A lonely dot on the map: exploring the climate signal in tree-ring density and stable isotopes of Clanwilliam cedar, South Africa
2020
- Ecological and societal effects of Central Asian streamflow variation over the past eight centuries
2020
- North Atlantic Oscillation modulates the interplay between monsoon and westerlies in Asia on interdecadal timescales
2020
- Poleward Excursions by the Himalayan Subtropical Jet Over the Past Four Centuries
2020
- Dendroclimatic analysis of Pinus peuce Griseb. At subalpine and treeline locations in Pirin Mountains, Bulgaria
2020
- Tree growth-climate relationships: should we detrend the explanatory variables?
2020
- Tree growth response to recent warming of two endemic species in Northeast Asia.
2020
- Tree ring-based historic hydroclimatic variability of the Baja California Peninsula
2020
- Scientific Merits and Analytical Challenges of Tree‐Ring Densitometry
2019
- Century-scale temperature variability and onset of industrial-era warming in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau
2019
- A 1200+year reconstruction of temperature extremes for the northeastern Mediterranean region
2019
- Seasonal and synoptic climatic drivers of tree growth in the Bighorn Mountains, WY, USA (1654-1983 CE)
2019
- Jet stream dynamics, hydroclimate, and fire in California from 1600 CE to present
2019
- Twentieth century redistribution in climatic drivers of global tree growth
2019
- Climate change is a driver of the rising urban fire activity in China
2019
- How do droughts and wildfires alter seasonal radial growth in Mediterranean Aleppo pine forests?
2018
- Regional drought shifts (1700-2011) in East Central Asia and linkages with atmospheric circulation recorded in tree-ring d18O.
2018
- Relative influences of multiple sources of uncertainty on cumulative and incremental tree-ring-derived aboveground biomass estimates
2018
- Post-1980 shifts in the sensitivity of boreal tree growth to North Atlantic Ocean dynamics and seasonal climate
2018
- Recent enhanced high-summer North Atlantic Jet variability emerges from three-century context
2018
- When tree rings go global: Challenges and opportunities for retro- and prospective insight
2018
- Climatic and volcanic forcing of tropical belt northern boundary over the past 800 years
2018
- Evaluating the effect of alternative carbon allocation schemes in a land surface model (CLM4.5) on carbon fluxes, pools, and turnover in temperate forests
2017
- PP51C-1077: Summer Temperature Extremes in the Northern Rockies: A Tree-Ring-Based Reconstruction (1670-2014) from the Bighorn Mountains, WY
2017
- Meet Adonis, Europe’s oldest dendrochronologically dated tree.
2017
- Uncertainty in tree-ring based biomass estimates does not alter growth-climate relationships.
2017
- Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream Position Indices as Diagnostic Tools for Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics
2017
- Pacific-Atlantic Ocean influence on wildfires in northeast China (1774 to 2010)
2017
- Climatic history of the northeastern United States during the past 3000 years
2016
- Socio-Ecological transitions trigger fire regime shifts and modulate fire-climate interactions in the Sierra Nevada, USA 1600-2015 CE
2016
- The value of crossdating to retain high-frequency variability, climate signals, and extreme events in environmental proxies.
2016
- High-elevation inter-site differences in Mount Smolikas tree-ring width data
2016
- Ranking of tree-ring based temperature reconstructions of the past millennium
2016
- Wood density provides new opportunities for reconstructing past temperature variability from southeastern Australian trees.
2016
- Shipwreck rates reveal Caribbean tropical cyclone response to past radiative forcing.
2016
- Multi-century evaluation of Sierra Nevada snowpack
2016
- Latitudinal gradients in tree-ring stable carbon and oxygen isotopes reveal differential climate influences of the North American Monsoon system.
2016
- Observed forest sensitivity to climate implies larger reductions in 21st century forest growth
2016
- A tree-ring based reconstruction of early summer precipitation in southwestern Virginia (1750-1981)
2015
- Climate sensitivity of Mediterranean pine growth reveals distinct east-west dipole
2015
- Peer review report 1 On ``Fire weather and large fire potential in the northern Sierra Nevada
2015
- Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era.
2015
- Corrigendum: Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia
2015
- North Atlantic tropical cyclone response to radiative forcing revealed by shipwrecks
2015
- A composite annual-resolution stalagmite record of North Atlantic climate over the last three millennia.
2015
- Synoptic drivers of 400 years of summer temperature and precipitation variability on Mt. Olympus, Greece
2015
- Some Perspectives on Societal Impacts of Past Climatic Changes
2014
- A tree-ring perspective on the terrestrial carbon cycle
2014
- Toward consistent measurements of carbon accumulation: A multi-site assessment of biomass and basal area increment across Europe
2014
- A tree-ring based late summer temperature reconstruction (1675-1980) for the northeastern Mediterranean
2014
- KNMI climate explorer: A web-based research tool for high-resolution paleoclimatology
2013
- Site- and species-specific responses of forest growth to climate across the European continent
2013
- Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia
2013
- A 1500-year reconstruction of annual mean temperature for temperate North America on decadal-to-multidecadal time scales
2013
- A tree-ring based comparison of Terminalia superba climate-growth relationships in West and Central Africa
2013
- North Atlantic storminess and Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during the last Millennium: Reconciling contradictory proxy records of NAO variability
2012
- An 800-year decadal-scale reconstruction of annual mean temperature for temperate North America
2012
- Climate sensitivity of a millennium-long pine chronology from Albania
2012
- Cambial Growth Season of Brevi-Deciduous Brachystegia spiciformis Trees from South Central Africa Restricted to Less than Four Months
2012
- North American Dendroclimatic Data: Compilation, Characterization, and Spatiotemporal Analysis
2012
- A pollen-based extension of the 800-year decadal-scale reconstruction of annual mean temperature for temperate North America dating back to 480 AD
2012
- A pan-European summer teleconnection mode recorded by a new temperature reconstruction from the northeastern Mediterranean (ad 1768-2008)
2012
- 2500 years of European climate variability and human susceptibility
2011
- High resolution δ sup 18 /sup O and δ sup 13 /sup C records from an annually laminated Scottish stalagmite and relationship with last millennium climate
2011
- Diverse climate sensitivity of Mediterranean tree-ring width and density
2010
- Tree-ring indicators of German summer drought over the last millennium
2010
- Fire-climate interactions in the American West since 1400 CE
2010
- Climate/growth relationships of Brachystegia spiciformis from the miombo woodland in south central Africa
2010
- Climate signal in tree-ring chronologies of Pinus peuce and Pinus heldreichii from the Pirin mountains in Bulgaria
2010
- Multi-century variability in the Pacific North American circulation pattern reconstructed from tree rings
2010
- Ensemble reconstruction constraints on the global carbon cycle sensitivity to climate
2010
- Human and climatic influences on fire occurrence in California's North Coast Range, USA
2009
- Persistent positive north atlantic oscillation mode dominated the medieval climate anomaly
2009
- Reconstructing Climate Dynamics Over the Past Millennium: Synoptic‐Scale Climate Dynamics Over the Last Millennium: A Case Study for the MCA‐LIA Transition; Kippel, Switzerland, 17–20 May 2009
2009
- Species-specific climate sensitivity of tree growth in Central-West Germany
2009
- Reconstructing climate dynamics over the past millenniumxs
2009
- Interannual variations in fire weather, fire extent, and synoptic-scale circulation patterns in northern California and Oregon
2009
- Climatic influences on fire regimes in montane forests of the southern Cascades, California, USA
2008
- The potential to reconstruct Manasi River streamflow in the Northern Tien Shan Mountains (NW China)
2007
- Annual growth ring patterns in Brachystegia spiciformis reveal influence of precipitation on tree growth
2006
- Fire-climate interaction in forests of the American Pacific coast
2006
- Climatic signals in tree rings of Burkea africana and Pterocarpus angolensis from semiarid forests in Namibia
2004
- Dendroclimatological potential of the miombo woodland in Zambia
2003
- Tree ring analysis of Brachystegia spiciformis and Isoberlinia tomentosa: Evaluation of the enso-signal in the miombo woodland of eastern Africa
2001