PUBLICATIONS

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Esper, J. J.E. Smerdon, K.J. Anchukaitis, K. Allen, E.R. Cook, R. D’Arrigo, S. Guillet, F.C. Ljungqvist, F. Reinig, L. Schneider, M. Sigl, M. Stoffel, M. Trnka, R. Wilson, U. Buntgen, Learning from the Past: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s reductive Common Era temperature history, Nature Communications Earth & Environment, in revision, 2024

Cook, B.I., E.R. Cook, K.J. Anchukaitis, D. Singh, Characterizing the 2010 Russian heatwave-Pakistan flood concurrent extreme over the last millennium using the Great Eurasian Drought Atlas, in revision, 2024

Nguyen-Xuan Hau, M. Sano, T. Nakatsuka, K.J. Anchukaitis, Thanh Ngo-Duc, Ying-Shuo Chang, Shin-Hao Chen, Ssu-Hao Wang, Hsin-Lin Wei, Zhen Li, Le-Thi Thuong, Tran Binh Minh, I-Ching Chen, Upstream rainout processes govern tree-ring oxygen isotopes with implications for monsoon and tropical hydroclimate reconstruction, submitted, 2023

Williams, A.P., K.A. McKinnon, K.J. Anchukaitis, A. Gershunov, A.M. Varuolo-Clarke, R.E.S Clemesha, H. Liu, Anthropogenic influence on extreme cool-season precipitation has not yet emerged across the western United States, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, in revision, 2024

Published


Anchukaitis, K.J., R Touchan, D.M. Meko, D. Kherchouche, S. Slimani, F. Sivrikaya, R. Ilmen, I. Mitsopoulos, J. Stephan, J. Attieh, F. Hasnaoui, J.J. Camarero, R. Sánchez-Salguero, F. Guibal, A. Piermattei, A. Christou, J. Krcmaric, B.I. Cook, Enhancing spatiotemporal reconstructions of hydroclimate variability across the Mediterranean during the last millennium, Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-024-07166-6, 2024 [preprint]

† King, K.E., E.R. Cook, K.J. Anchukaitis, B.I. Cook, J.E. Smerdon, R. Seager, G. Harley, B. Spei, The increasing prevalence of hot drought across western North America since the 16th century, Science Advances, 10, 4, doi:10.1126/sciadv.adj42, 2023 [Data] [Columbia University] [LDEO] [Washington Post] [CNN] [NPR]

Williams, A.P., K.J. Anchukaitis, A.M. Varuolo-Clarke, Atmospheric rivers are responsible for cyclicity in Sierra Nevada precipitation, Journal of Climate, 37, 5, 1613-1627, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0421.1, 2023

Herrera, D.A., B.I Cook, J. Fasullo, K.J. Anchukaitis, M.J. Alessi, C.J. Martinez, C.P. Evans, X. Li, K.N. Ellis, R. Mendez-Tejeda, T.R. Ault, A. Centella-Artola, T.S. Stephenson, M.A. Taylor, Observed changes in hydroclimate attributed to human forcing, PLOS Climate, 2(11): e0000303, doi:10.1371/journal.pclm.0000303, 2023.

Anderson, T.G., K. McKinnon, D. Pons, K.J. Anchukaitis, How exceptional was the 2015–2019 Central American Drought? Geophysical Research Letters, 50, 21, doi:10.1029/2023GL105391, 2023 [data and code]

Burke, A., H. Innes, L. Crick, K.J. Anchukaitis, M. Byrne, W. Hutchison, J. McConnell, K. Moore, J. Rae, M. Sigl, and R. Wilson, High sensitivity of summer temperatures to stratospheric sulfur loading from volcanoes in the Northern Hemisphere, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120, 47, e2221810120, doi:10.1073/pnas.2221810120, 2023 [Github]

King, J., J.E. Tierney, M. Osman, E. Judd, K.J. Anchukaitis, DASH: A MATLAB Toolbox for Paleoclimate Data Assimilation, Geoscientific Model Development, 16, 5653–5683, doi:10.5194/gmd-16-5653-2023, 2023 [Github] [Zenodo]

Zhu, F., J. Emile-Geay, K.J. Anchukaitis, N. McKay, S. Stevenson, Z. Meng, A pseudoproxy emulation of the PAGES 2k database using a hierarchy of proxy system models, Scientific Data, 10, 624, doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02489-1, 2023

Schneider, L., O. Konter, J. Esper, K.J. Anchukaitis, Constraining the 19th century temperature baseline for global warming, Journal of Climate, 36, 18, 6261–6272, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0806.1, 2023

‡ Dye, L.A., B.L. Coulthard, B. Hatchett, I.K. Homfeld, T.N. Salazar, J.S. Littell, K.J. Anchukaitis, The severity of the 2014-2015 snow drought in the Oregon Cascades in a multicentury context, Water Resources Research, 59, 5, doi:10.1029/2022WR032875, 2023

King, J., K.J. Anchukaitis, K. Allen, T. Vance, A. Hessl, Trends and variability in the Southern Annular Mode during the Common Era, Nature Communications, 14, 2324, doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37643-1, 2023 [preprint] [Code and Data]

† Leland, C., R. D'Arrigo, N. Davi, K.J. Anchukaitis, L. Andreu-Hayles, T.J. Porter, T. Galloway, M. Mant, G. Wiles, R. Wilson, S. Beaulieu, R. Oelkers, B. Gaglioti, M.P. Rao, E. Reid, T. Nixon, A Spatiotemporal Assessment of Extreme Cold in Northwestern North America Following the Unidentified 1809 CE Volcanic Eruption, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38, 5, doi:10.1029/2022PA004581, 2023

‡ Heeter, K., G. Harley, J. Abatzoglou, K.J. Anchukaitis, E.R. Cook, B.L. Coulthard, L.A. Dye, and I.K. Homfled, Unprecedented 21st century heat across the Pacific Northwest of North America, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6, 5, doi:10.1038/s41612-023-00340-3, 2023 [Data] [Columbia University] [Gizmodo] [KUOW] [Science News] [Eos]

‡ Walker, M., A. Mueller, K. Allen, P. Fenwick, V. Agrawal, K.J. Anchukaitis, A. Hessl, High Resolution Radiocarbon Spike Confirms Tree Ring Dating with Low Sample Depth, Dendrochronologia, doi:10.1016/j.dendro.2022.126048, 2022

† Leland, C., L. Andreu-Hayles, E.R. Cook, K.J. Anchukaitis, O. Byambasuren, N. Davi, A. Hessl, D. Martin-Benito, B. Nachin, N. Pederson, Impacts of Climate and Tree Morphology on Tree-ring Stable Isotopes in Central Mongolia, Tree Physiology, doi:10.1093/treephys/tpac142, 2022

Cook, B.I. J.E. Smerdon, E.R. Cook, A.P. Williams, K.J. Anchukaitis, J.S. Mankin, K. Allen, L. Andreu-Hayles, T.R Ault, S. Belmecheri , S. Coats, B. Coulthard, B. Fosu, P. Grierson, D. Griffin, D. Herrara, M. Ionita, F. Lehner, C. Leland, K.D. Marvel, M. Morales, V. Mishra, J. Ngoma, H. Nguyen, A. O’Donnell, J. Palmer, M.P. Rao, M. Rodriguez, D. Stahle, S. Stevenson, U.K. Thapa, A. Varuolo-Clarke, E. Wise, Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene, Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, 3, 741-757, doi:10.1038/s43017-022-00329-1, 2022 [ReadCube] [PDF] [New Scientist] [The Conversation]

‡ Grzywacz, Z., A. Hessl, K.J. Anchukaitis, S. Sharma, M.N. Evans, S. Nichols, Investigating the potential for Southern Hemisphere climate reconstruction using stable isotopes in Tasmanian tree rings, Dendrochronologia, 22, 126016, doi:10.1016/j.dendro.2022.126016, 2022

Degroot, D., K.J. Anchukaitis, J.E. Tierney, F. Riede, A. Manica, E. Moesswilde, N. Gauthier, The History of Climate and Society: A Review of the Influence of Climate Change on the Human Past, Environmental Research Letters, 17, 10, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac8faa, 2022

Anchukaitis, K.J. and J.E. Smerdon, Progress and uncertainties in global and hemispheric temperature reconstructions of the Common Era, Quaternary Science Reviews, 286, 107537, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107537, 2022

‡ Reed, E.V, D.M Thompson, K.J. Anchukaitis, Coral-based Sea Surface Salinity Reconstructions and the Role of Observational Uncertainties in Inferred Variability and Trends, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37, 6, e2021PA004371, doi:10.1029/2021PA004371, 2022 [Data and Code]

‡ Trinies, C.A., A.G. Bunn, C. Robertson, K.J. Anchukaitis, Dendroclimatology of yellow-cedar (Callitropsis nootkatensis) and temperature variability on the western slopes of the North Cascades in Washington State, USA from 1333 to 2015 CE, Tree-Ring Research, 78(2):113-128, doi:10.3959/2021-20, 2022

Mackay, H., G. Plunkett, B. Jensen, T. Aubry, C. Corona, W.M. Kim, M. Toohey, M. Sigl, M. Stoffel, K.J. Anchukaitis, C. Raible, M. Bolton, J. Manning, T. Newfield, N. Di Cosmo, F. Ludlow, C. Kostick, Z. Yang, L. Coyle McClung, M. Amesbury, A. Monteath, P. Hughes, P. Langdon, D. Charman, R. Booth, K. Davies, A. Blundell, G. and Swindles,. The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill eruption: examining the potential climatic and societal impacts and the timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic Region, Climate of the Past, 18, 6, 1475--1508, doi:10.5194/cp-18-1475-2022, 2022

‡ Zhu, F., J. Emile-Geay, K.J. Anchukaitis, G.J. Hakim, A. Wittenberg, M. Morales, M. Toohey,`J. King, A re-appraisal of the ENSO response to volcanism with paleoclimate data assimilation, Nature Communications, 13, 747, doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28210-1, 2022 [preprint] [Github] [Zenodo]

Edwards, J., K.J. Anchukaitis, B.E. Gunnarson, C. Pearson, K. Seftigen, G. von Arx, H.W. Linderholm, The origin of tree-ring reconstructed summer cooling in Northern Europe during the 18th century eruption of Laki, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37, 2, e2021PA004386, doi:10.1029/2021PA004386, 2022 [preprint] [data] [Commentary] [Editor Highlight]

Gauthier, N., B.L. Coulthard, K.J. Anchukaitis, Pattern-based downscaling of snowpack variability in the western United States, Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-021-06094-z, 2021 [preprint]

Brice, R., B.L. Coulthard, I.K. Homfeld, L.A. Dye, K.J. Anchukaitis, Paleohydrological context for recent floods and droughts in the Fraser River basin, Environmental Research Letters, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac3daf, 2021

Shishov, V., I. Tychkov, K.J. Anchukaitis, G.K. Zelenov, E.A. Vaganov, A band model of cambium development: opportunities and prospects, Forests, 12(10):1361, doi:10.3390/f12101361, 2021

‡ Windler, G., J.E. Tierney, K.J. Anchukaitis, Glacial-interglacial shifts dominate tropical Indo-Pacific hydroclimate during the late Pleistocene, Geophysical Research Letters, 48, 15, e2021GL093339, doi:10.1029/2021GL093339, 2021

Anderson, T.G., D.A. Christie, R.O. Chávez, M. Olea, K.J. Anchukaitis, Spatiotemporal peatland productivity and climate relationships across the western South American Altiplano, Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 126, 6, e2020JG005994, doi:10.1029/2020JG005994, 2021

King, J.M., K.J. Anchukaitis, J.E. Tierney, G.J. Hakim, J. Emile-Geay, F. Zhu, R. Wilson, A data assimilation approach to last millennium temperature field reconstruction using a limited high-sensitivity proxy network, Journal of Climate, 34(17): 7091–7111, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0661.1, 2021 [Final Preprint] [EarthArXiv] [Code] [Reconstructions]

Buntgen, U., K. Allen, K.J. Anchukaitis, D. Arseneault, E. Boucher, A. Brauning, S. Chatterjee, P. Cherubini, O.V. Churakova, C. Corona, F. Gennaretti, J. Grießinger, S. Guillet, J. Guiot, B. Gunnarson, S. Helama, P. Hochreuther, M.K. Hughes, P. Huybers, A.V. Kirdyanov, P.J. Krusic, J. Ludescher, W. J.-H. Meier, V.S. Myglan, K. Nicolussi, C. Oppenheimer, F. Reinig, M.W. Salzer, K. Seftigen, A.R. Stine, M. Stoffel, S. St. George, E. Tejedor, A. Trevino, V. Trouet, J. Wang, R. Wilson, B. Yang, G. Xu, J. Esper, The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions, Nature Communications, 12, 3411, doi:10.1038/s41467-021-23627-6, 2021 [Cambridge Press Release]

Degroot, D., K.J. Anchukaitis, M. Bauch, J. Burnham, F. Carnegy, J. Cui, K. de Luna, P. Guzowski, G. Hambrecht, H. Huhtamaa, A. Izdebski, K. Kleemann, E. Moesswilde, T. Newfield, Q. Pei, E. Xoplaki, N. Zappia. Towards a Rigorous Understanding of Societal Responses to Climate Change, Nature, 591, 539-550, doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03190-2, 2021 [UArizona Press Release] [Georgetown Press Release] [Max Planck Press Release] [Grist] [The Lancet]

Coulthard, B.L.
, K.J. Anchukaitis, G.T. Pederson, E.R. Cook, J. Littell, D. Smith, Snowpack signals in North American tree rings, Environmental Research Letters, 16, 034037, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/abd5de, 2021

Williams, A.P., K.J. Anchukaitis, C. A. Woodhouse, D. M. Meko, B. I. Cook, K. Bolles, E. R. Cook, Tree rings suggest no stable cycles in Sierra Nevada cool-season precipitation,Water Resources Research, 57(3), e2020WR028599, doi:10.1029/2020WR028599, 2021

Edwards, J., K.J. Anchukaitis, B. Zambri, L. Andreu-Hayles, R. Oelkers, R. D’Arrigo, G. von Arx, Intra-annual climate anomalies in northwestern North America following the 1783-1784 CE Laki eruption, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 126, e2020JD033544, doi:10.1029/2020JD033544, 2021 [Press Release] [Daily Wildcat] [NSF] [Data @ NOAA]

‡ McPartland, M.Y., S. St. George, G.T. Pederson, K.J. Anchukaitis, Does signal-free detrending increase chronology coherence in large tree-ring networks? Dendrochronologia, 63, 125755, doi:10.1016/j.dendro.2020.125755, 2020

‡ Murphy, P.C., J.F. Knowles, D.J.P. Moore, K.J. Anchukaitis, D.L. Potts, G.A. Barron-Gafford, Topography influences species-specific patterns of seasonal primary productivity in a semiarid montane forest, Tree Physiology, 40, 10,1343–1354, doi:10.1093/treephys/tpaa083, 2020

Cook, B.I., J. S. Mankin, K. Marvel, A. P. Williams, J. E. Smerdon, K.J. Anchukaitis, Twenty-first Century Drought Projections in the CMIP6 Forcing Scenarios, Earth's Future, 8, 6 e2019EF001461, doi:10.1029/2019EF001461, 2020

Andreu-Hayles, L., B.V. Gaglioti, L.T. Berner, M. Levesque, K.J. Anchukaitis, S. Goetz, R. D'Arrigo, A narrow window of summer temperatures is associated with shrub growth in Arctic Alaska, Environmental Research Letters, 15, 10, 105012, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab897f, 2020

Martin, J.T., G.T. Pederson, C.A. Woodhouse, E.R. Cook, G.J. McCabe, K.J. Anchukaitis, E.K. Wise, P.J. Erger, L.S. Dolan, M. McGuire, S. Gangopadhyay, K.J. Chase, J.S. Littell, S.T. Gray, S. St. George, J.M. Friedman, D.J. Sauchyn, J. St. Jacques, and J.C. King, Increased drought intensity driven by warming in the United States’ largest river basin, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117, 21, 11328-11336, doi:10.1073/pnas.1916208117, 2020. [Washington Post]

‡ Zhu, F. J. Emile-Geay, G.J. Hakim, J. King, K.J. Anchukaitis, Resolving the differences in the simulated and reconstructed climate response to volcanism, Geophysical Research Letters, 47, 8, doi:10.1029/2019gl086908, 2020 [ESSOAr] [Strange Weather]

Pederson, N., C. Leland, D.A. Bishop, J.K. Pearl, K.J. Anchukaitis, T. Mandra, M. Hopton-Ahmed, D. Martin-Benito, A framework for determining population-level vulnerability to climate: evidence for growth hysteresis in Chamaecyparis thyoides along its contiguous latitudinal distribution, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 3:39, doi:10.3389/ffgc.2020.00039, 2020.

Anchukaitis, K.J., M.N. Evans, M.K. Hughes, E.A. Vaganov, An interpreted language implementation of the Vaganov-Shashkin tree-ring proxy system model, Dendrochronologia, 60, 125677, doi:10.1016/j.dendro.2020.125677, 2020 [EartharXiv] [Github]

Pearl, J.K., K.J. Anchukaitis, J. Donnelly, C. Pearson, N. Pederson, M.C. Lardie Gaylord , A.P. McNichol, E.R. Cook, G.L. Zimmermann, A late Holocene subfossil Atlantic white cedar tree-ring chronology from the northeastern United States, Quaternary Science Reviews, 228, 106104, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106104, 2020.

Pearl, J.K., K.J. Anchukaitis, N. Pederson, J. Donnelly, Multivariate climate field reconstructions using tree rings for the northeastern United States, Journal of Geophysical Research, 125, 1, e2019JD031619, doi:10.1029/2019JD031619, 2020.

Anderson, T.G., K.J. Anchukaitis, D. Pons, M.J. Taylor, Multiscale trends and precipitation extremes in the Central American Midsummer Drought, Environmental Research Letters, 14, 124016, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab5023, 2019 [UANews] [KJZZ]

Anchukaitis, K.J.
, Cook, E.R., Cook, B.I., J.K. Pearl, R.D. D'Arrigo, R. Wilson, Coupled Modes of North Atlantic Ocean-Atmosphere Variability and the Onset of the Little Ice Age, Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 21, 12417-12426, doi:10.1029/2019GL084350, 2019

Dull, R.A., J.R. Southon, S. Kutterolf, K.J. Anchukaitis, A. Freundt, D.B. Wahl, P. Sheets, P. Amaroli, W. Hernandez, M.C. Wiemann, C. Oppenheimer, Radiocarbon and geologic evidence reveal Ilopango volcano as source of the 'mystery' eruption of 539/40 CE, Quaternary Science Reviews, 222, 105855, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.07.037, 2019 [Science] [Atlas Obscura] [New Scientist] [National Geographic]

Wilson, R., K.J. Anchukaitis, L. Andreu Hayles, E. Cook, R.D. D’Arrigo, N. Davi, L. Haberbauer, P. Krusic, B. Luckman, D. Morimoto, R. Oelkers, G. Wiles, C. Wood, Improved dendroclimatic calibration using Blue Intensity for white spruce in the southern Yukon, The Holocene, 29, 11, doi:10.1177/0959683619862037, 2019

Alexander, M.R., J.K. Pearl, D.A. Bishop, E.R. Cook, K.J. Anchukaitis, N. Pederson, The potential to strengthen temperature reconstructions in eco-regions with limited tree line using a multi-species approach, Quaternary Research, 92, 2, 583-597, doi:10.1017/qua.2019.33, 2019

‡ Rao, M.P., E.R. Cook, B.I. Cook, K.J. Anchukaitis, R.D. D'Arrigo, P.J. Krusic, A.N. LeGrande, A double bootstrap approach to Superposed Epoch Analysis to evaluate response uncertainty, Dendrochronologia, 55, 119-124, doi:10.1016/j.dendro.2019.05.001, 2019

Cook, E.R., Y. Kushnir, J.E. Smerdon, A.P. Williams, K.J. Anchukaitis, E. Wahl, A Euro-Mediterranean Tree-Ring Reconstruction of the Winter NAO Index Since 910 CE, Climate Dynamics, 53(3–4), 1567-1580, doi:10.1007/s00382-019-04696-2, 2019.

Allen K.J., K.J. Anchukaitis, M.G. Grose, G. Lee, E.R. Cook, S. Larsen, A. O’Grady, J.S. Risbey, T.J. O’Kane, D. Monselesan, P.J. Baker, Reconstructions of cool season temperature for far southeastern Australia, Climate Dynamics, 53(1-2), 569-583, doi:10.1007/s00382-018-04602-2, 2019

Andreu-Hayles, L., M. Levesque, D. Martin-Benito, R. Harris, W. Huang, C. Leland, R. Oelkers, J. Martin- Fernández, K.J. Anchukaitis, G. Helle, A high yield cellulose extraction system for small whole wood samples and dual measurement of carbon and oxygen stable isotopes, Chemical Geology, 504, 53-65, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.09.007, 2019.

Bunn, A.G., M.W. Salzer, K.J. Anchukaitis, J.M. Bruening, and M.K. Hughes, Spatiotemporal variability in the climate growth response of high elevation bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California, Geophysical Research Letters, 45(24): 13312-13321, doi:10.1029/2018GL080981, 2018

Esper, J., S. St. George, K.J. Anchukaitis, R. D'Arrigo, F. Ljungqvist, J. Luterbacher, L. Schneider, M. Stoffel, R. Wilson, U. Buntgen, Large-scale, millennial-length temperature reconstructions from tree-rings, Dendrochronologia, 50, 81--90, doi:10.1016/j.dendro.2018.06.001, 2018.

Cook, B.I., J.S. Mankin, K.J. Anchukaitis, Climate Change and Drought: From Past to Future, Current Climate Change Reports, 4(2):164--179, doi:10.1007/s40641-018-0093-2, 2018 [PDF]

Karnauskas, K.B. C-F Schleussner, J.P. Donnelly, K.J. Anchukaitis, Freshwater Stress on Small Island Developing States: Population Projections and Aridity Changes at 1.5°C and 2°C, Regional Environmental Change, 18(8), 2273-2282, doi:10.1007/s10113-018-1331-9, 2018

Anderson, T., D. Griffin, K.J. Anchukaitis, D. Pons, M.J. Taylor, Climate sensitivity and potential vulnerability of Guatemalan fir (Abies guatemalensis) forests in Totonicapán, Guatemala, Journal of Latin American Geography, 17(1), 222-247, 2018.

Hessl, A.E., K.J. Anchukaitis, C. Jelsema, B.I. Cook, O. Byambasuran, C. Leland, B. Naching, N. Pederson, H. Tian, L Andreu-Hayles, Past and Future Drought in Mongolia, Science Advances, 4(3), e1701832, doi:10.1126/sciadv.1701832, 2018. [UA] [WVU] [NSF] [ScienceNews]

‡ Leland, C., E.R. Cook, L. Andreu-Hayles, N Pederson, A. Hessl, K.J. Anchukaitis, O. Byambasuren, B. Nachin, N Davi, R.D. D’Arrigo, K. Griffin, D.A. Bishop, M.P, Rao, Strip-bark morphology and radial growth trends in ancient Pinus sibirica trees from central Mongolia, Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 123, 3, 945-959, doi:10.1002/2017JG004196, 2018.

K.J. Anchukaitis, Tree rings reveal climate change past, present, and future, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 161, 3, 244-263, 2017 [PDF]

Pearl, J.K., K.J. Anchukaitis, N. Pederson, J. Donnelly, Reconstructing Northeastern United States temperatures using Atlantic white cedar tree rings, Environmental Research Letters, 12(11), 114012, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa8f1b, 2017

PAGES2k Hydro2k Consortium (Smerdon, J.E., J. Luterbacher, S. Phipps, K.J. Anchukaitis et al.), Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era, Climate of the Past, 13, 1851-1900, doi:10.5194/cp-13-1851-2017, 2017

Martin-Benito, D., K.J. Anchukaitis, M.N. Evans, M. del Rio, H. Beeckman, I. Canellas, Effects of drought on xylem anatomy and water use efficiency of two co-occurring pine species, Forests, 8(9), 332; doi:10.3390/f8090332, 2017.

PAGES2k Consortium (Emile-Geay, J., N. McKay, D. Kaufman, L. von Gunten, J. Wang, K.J. Anchukaitis, et al.), A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era, Nature Scientific Data, 4, 170088, doi:10.1038/sdata.2017.88, 2017. [PAGES Additional Information] [PAGES Press Release] [Nature Blog] [Future Earth blog] [USC] [The Independent UK]

Wilson, R. R.D. D'Arrigo, L. Andreu-Hayles, R. Oelkers, G. Wiles, K.J. Anchukaitis, and N. Davi, Blue Intensity based experiments for reconstructing North Pacific temperatures along the Gulf of Alaska, Climate of the Past, 13, 1007-1022, doi:10.5194/cp-13-1007-2017, 2017

Coulthard, B., R. Touchan, K.J. Anchukaitis, D.M. Meko, F. Sivrikakaya, Tree growth and vegetation activity at the ecosystem-scale in the eastern Mediterranean, Environmental Research Letters, 12, 084008, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa7b26, 2017.

Quade, J., E.T. Rasbury, K. Huntington, A.M. Hudson, H. Vonhof, K.J. Anchukaitis, J. Betancourt, C. Latorre, M. Pepper, Isotopic Characterization of late Neogene travertine deposits at Barrancas Blancas in the eastern Atacama Desert, Chile, Chemical Geology, 466, 41–56, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.05.004, 2017.

‡ Rao, M.P. B.I. Cook, E.R. Cook, R.D. D'Arrigo, P.J. Krusic, K.J. Anchukaitis, A. LeGrande, B.M. Buckley, N.K. Davi, C. Leland, K. L. Griffin, European and Mediterranean hydroclimate responses to tropical volcanic forcing over the past millennium, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 10, 5104-5112, doi:10.1002/2017GL073057, 2017.

Karnauskas, K.B., J.P. Donnelly, K.J. Anchukaitis, An intercomparison of monthly surface air temperature on islands and proximate moorings across the tropical Indo-Pacific, arXiv:1707.04603, 2017.

Anchukaitis, K.J.
, R. Wilson, K. Briffa, U. Büntgen, E.R. Cook, R.D. D’Arrigo, N. Davi, J. Esper, D. Frank, B. Gunnarson, G. Hegerl, S. Helama, S. Klesse, P.J. Krusic, H. Linderholm, V. Myglan, T. J. Osborn, Z. Peng, M. Rydval, L. Schneider, A. Schurer, G. Wiles and E. Zorita, Last millennium Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part II: spatially resolved reconstructions, Quaternary Science Reviews, 163, 1-22, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.02.020, 2017. [Data @ NOAA] [netCDF]

Touchan, R, K.J. Anchukaitis, D Meko, D. Kerchouche, S. Slimani, R. Ilmen, F. Hasnaoui, F. Guibal, J.J. Camarero, R. Sánchez-Salguero, A Piermattei, A. Sesbou, B.I. Cook, M. Sabir, H. Touchane, Climate controls on tree growth in the Western Mediterranean,The Holocene, 27, 10, 1429--1442, doi:10.1177/0959683617693901, 2017.

‡ Pons, D., M. J. Taylor, D. Griffin, E. Castellanos, K.J. Anchukaitis, On the production of climate information in the high mountain forests of Guatemala, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 107(2): 323-335, doi: 10.1080/24694452.2016.1235481, 2017.

† Coats, S., J.E. Smerdon, B.I. Cook, R. Seager, E.R. Cook, K.J. Anchukaitis, Internal ocean-atmosphere variability drives megadroughts in Western North America, Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 9886–9894, doi: 10.1002/2016GL070105, 2016.

Karnauskas, K.B., J.P. Donnelly, K.J. Anchukaitis, Future freshwater stress for island populations, Nature Climate Change, 6, 720-725, doi:10.1038/nclimate2987, 2016. [UC Boulder] [CarbonBrief] [Yahoo] [Discovery] [Sydney Morning Herald] [Grist] [Christian Science Monitor] [CNBC] [Guardian] [Newsweek] [International Business Times] [The Weather Channel] [CLIVAR] [climate.gov]

‡ Fleming, L.E. and K.J. Anchukaitis, North Pacific decadal variability in the CMIP5 last millennium simulations, Climate Dynamics, 47: 3783–3801, doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3041-7, 2016.

Cook, B.I., K.J. Anchukaitis, R. Touchan, D.M. Meko, and E.R. Cook, Spatiotemporal drought variability in the Mediterranean over the last 900 years, Journal of Geophysical Research, 121, doi:10.1002/2015JD023929, 2016. [AGU] [NASA] [UA] [LDEO] [Climate Central] [Discovery] [The Guardian] [Inverse] [Mashable] [Christian Science Monitor] [Haaretz] [MSN] [Jerusalem Post] [ABC (Spain)] [CNN] [Newsweek] [Vice] [Washington Post] [The Independent] [Time] [AP] [US News and World Report] [IBT] [Gizmodo] [ABC] [Nature] [PBS] [KJZZ] [BBC]

Wilson, R. K.J. Anchukaitis, K. Briffa, U. Büntgen, E.R. Cook, R.D. D’Arrigo, N. Davi, J. Esper, D. Frank, B. Gunnarson, G. Hegerl, S. Helama, S. Klesse, P.J. Krusic, H. Linderholm, V. Myglan, T. J. Osborn, Z. Peng, M. Rydval, L. Schneider, A. Schurer, G. Wiles and E. Zorita, Last millennium Northern hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part I: the long term context, Quaternary Science Reviews, 134, 1-18, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.12.005, 2016. [Columbia University]

‡ Rydval, M., D. Druckenbrod, K.J. Anchukaitis, R. Wilson, Detection and removal of disturbance trends in tree-ring series for dendroclimatology, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, doi:10.1139/cjfr-2015-0366, 2015.

LeGrande, A. and K.J. Anchukaitis, Volcanic eruptions and climate, PAGES Magazine, 23(2): 46-47, 2015. [PDF]

St. George, S. and K.J. Anchukaitis, On the AD 1815 Tambora eruption and the matter of misplaced tree rings, PAGES Magazine, 23(2): 60-61, 2015. [PDF]

Hernandez, M., C. C. Ummenhofer, K.J. Anchukaitis, Multi-scale drought and ocean-atmosphere variability in monsoon Asia, Environmental Research Letters, 10, 0740102015, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/7/074010, 2015.

Davi, N. , R. D'Arrigo, G.C. Jacoby, E.R. Cook, K.J. Anchukaitis, B. Nachin, M.P. Rao, C. Leland, A long-term context (931--2005 C.E.) for rapid warming over central Asia, Quaternary Science Reviews, 14, 1, 89-97, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.05.020, 2015. [Earth Institute] [LDEO]

Tierney, J.E., N.J. Abram, K.J. Anchukaitis, M.N. Evans, C. Giry, H. Kilbourne, C.P. Saenger, H. Wu, J. Zinke, Tropical sea-surface temperatures for the past four centuries reconstructed from coral archives, Paleoceanography, 30(3), 226-252 doi: 10.1002/2014PA002717, 2015.

Anchukaitis, K.J., M. J. Taylor, C. Leland, D. Pons, J. Martin-Fernandez, E. Castellanos, Tree-ring reconstructed dry season rainfall in Guatemala, Climate Dynamics, 45, 5-6, 1537–1546, doi: 10.1007/s00382-014-2407-y, 2015.

D’Arrigo, R.D., R. Wilson, G. Wiles, K.J. Anchukaitis, O. Solomina, N. Davi, C. Deser, V. Matskovsky, E. Dolgova, Tree-ring reconstructed temperature index for coastal northern Japan: implications for western North Pacific variability, International Journal of Climatology, doi: 10.1002/joc.4230, 2014.

Griffin, D. and K.J. Anchukaitis, How unusual is the 2012-2014 California drought? Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1002/2014GL062433, 2014. [UMN] [WHOI] [Mercury News] [Climate Central] [LA Observed] [USA Today] [Salon] [Washington Post] [io9] [Earth+Sky] [538] [Scientific American] [NBC] [Smithsonian] [LA Times] [Time] [KPCC] [MPR] [KQED] [Buzzfeed] [EOS]

Touchan, R., D. Meko, K.J. Anchukaitis, Dendroclimatology in the Eastern Mediterranean, Radiocarbon, 54(4): S61-S68, doi: 10.2458/azu_rc.56.18321, 2014.

Anchukaitis, K.J. and N. McKay, PAGES2k: Advances in Climate Field Reconstructions, PAGES Magazine, 22(2):98, 2014. [PDF]

PAGES2k Consortium (Kaufman, D., K.J. Anchukaitis, U. Buentgen, J. Emile-Geay, M.N. Evans, H. Goosse, J. Luterbacher, J.E. Smerdon, L. von Gunten), A framework for community-driven climate reconstructions during the past two millennia, EOS, 95(40):361-362, doi:10.1002/2014EO400001, 2014.

Martin-Benito, D., N. Pederson, M. McDonald, P.J. Krusic, B.M. Buckley, K.J. Anchukaitis, R. D’Arrigo, L. Andreu-Hayles, and E. Cook. Dendrochronological dating of the World Trade Center ship, Lower Manhattan, New York City, Tree-Ring Research, 70(2), 65-77, doi: 10.3959/1536-1098-70.2.65, 2014. [Scientific American] [Discovery] [Huffington Post] [NPR] [NY Times] [C-SPAN] [Discovery (2)] [History Channel] [New York Observer] [National Geographic] [History Channel] [Washington Post] [Gizmodo] [io9] [Telegraph (UK)] [Boston Globe] [NBC Nightly News] [Philadelphia Inquirer] [Mashable] [CNN] [The New Yorker]

Wiles, G.C., O. Solomina, R.D. D’Arrigo, K.J. Anchukaitis, Y. V. Gensiarovsky, N. Wiesenberg, Reconstructed summer temperatures over the last 400 years based on larch ring widths: Sakhalin Island, Russian Far East, Climate Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s00382-014-2209-2, 2014.

Pederson, N., A. Hessl, N. Baatarbileg, K.J. Anchukaitis, and N. DiCosmo, Pluvials, Droughts, the Mongol Empire, and Modern Mongolia, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(12):4375-4379, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1318677111, 2014. [NSF] [National Geographic][Time] [Los Angeles Times] [ BBC][Smithsonian] [USA Today] [Science] [io9][The Independent (UK)] [Climate Central ] [The Conversation (AUS)] [ABC (AUS)] [Der Spiegel] [Bloomberg] [Seattle Post-Intelligencer-] [Christian Science Monitor] [The Week] [Scientific American] [PBS NewsHour] [The Times (UK)] [Discover Magazine] [BBC World Service] [Quirks and Quarks] [NY Times]

Touchan, R., K.J. Anchukaitis, V.V. Shishov, F. Sivrikaya, J. Attieh, M. Ketmen, J. Stephan, I. Mitsopoulos, A. Christou, D.M. Meko. Spatial Patterns of Eastern Mediterranean Climate Influence on Tree Growth, The Holocene, 24(4):381-392, doi:10.1177/0959683613518594, 2014.

D’Arrigo, R.D., R. Wilson, K.J. Anchukaitis, Volcanic cooling signal in tree-ring temperature reconstructions for the past millennium, Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, 9000–9010, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50692, 2013. [AGU Research Spotlight]

‡ Tolwinski-Ward, S.E., K.J. Anchukaitis, M.N.Evans, Bayesian parameter estimation and interpretation for an intermediate model of tree-ring width, Climate of the Past, 9, 1481–1493, doi:10.5194/cp-9-1481-2013, 2013.

Evans, M.N, S.E. Tolwinski-Ward, D.M. Thompson, K.J. Anchukaitis, Applications of proxy system modeling in high resolution paleoclimatology, Quaternary Science Reviews, 76, 16–28, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.05.0242013, 2013.

Anchukaitis, K.J., R.D.D’Arrigo, L.Andreu-Hayles, D.Frank, A.Verstege, B.M.Buckley, A.Curtis, G.C. Jacoby, E.R. Cook, Tree-ring reconstructed summer temperatures from northwestern North America during the last nine centuries, Journal of Climate, 26, 10, 3001–3012, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00139.1, 2013. [Reconstruction Data] [ITRDB]

PAGES 2k Consortium (M. Ahmed, K.J. Anchukaitis, A. Asrat, H.P. Borgaonkar, M. Braida, B.M. Buckley, U. Buntgen, B.M. Chase, D.A. Christie, E.R. Cook, M.A.J. Curran, H.F. Diaz, J.Esper, Z-X. Fan, N.P. Gaire, Q. Ge, J. Gergis, J.F. Gonzalez-Rouco, H. Goosse, S.W. Grab, N. Graham, R. Graham, M. Grosjean, S.T. Hanhijarvi, D.S. Kaufman, T. Kiefer, K. Kimura, A.A. Korhola, P.J. Krusic, A. Lara, A-M. Lezine, F.C. Ljungqvist, A.M. Lorrey, J. Luterbacher, V. Masson-Delmotte, D. McCarroll, J.R. McConnell, N.P. McKay, M.S. Morales, A.D. Moy, R. Mulvaney, I.A. Mundo, T. Nakatsuka, D.J. Nash, R. Neukom, S.E. Nicholson, H. Oerter, J.G. Palmer, S.J. Phipps, M.R. Prieto, A. Rivera, M. Sano, M. Severi, T.M. Shanahan, X. Shao, F. Shi, M. Sigl, J.E. Smerdon, O.N. Solomina, E.J. Steig, B. Stenni, M. Thamban, V. Trouet, C.S.M. Turney, M. Umer, T. van Ommen, D. Verschuren, A.E. Viau, R. Villalba, B.M. Vinther, L. von Gunten, S. Wagner, E.R. Wahl, H. Wanner, J.P. Werner, J.W.C. White, K. Yasue, E. Zorita), Continental-scale temperature variability during the last two millennia, Nature Geoscience, 6, 339–346, doi:10.1038/ngeo1797, 2013. [Press Release] [DotEarth] [NOAA] [NSF] [Corrigendum]

† Bell, A.R., D.E. Osgood, B.I. Cook, K.J. Anchukaitis, G.R. McCarney, A.M. Greene, B.M. Buckley, E.R. Cook, Paleoclimate histories improve access and sustainability in index insurance programs, Global Environmental Change, doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.03.003, 2013.

Anchukaitis, K.J., M. Taylor, J. Martin-Fernandez, D. Pons, M. Dell, C. Chopp, E. Castellanos, Annual chronology and climate response in Abies guatemalensis Rehder (Pinaceae) in Central America, The Holocene, 23, 2, 270–277, doi:10.1177/0959683612455548, 2013.

Tierney, J.E., J.E. Smerdon, K.J. Anchukaitis, R. Seager, Decadal-scale East African hydroclimate controlled by the Indian Ocean, Nature, 493, 389–392, doi:10.1038/nature11785, 2013. [Data]

† Beck, P.S.A., R.D. D’Arrigo, K.J. Anchukaitis, C.J. Tucker, J.E. Pinzo ́n, S.J. Goetz, A large-scale coherent signal of canopy status in maximum latewood density of tree rings at arctic treeline in North America, Global and Planetary Change, 100, 109–118, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.10.005, 2013.

Ummenhofer, C.C., R.D. D'Arrigo, K.J. Anchukaitis, B.M. Buckley, E.R. Cook, Links between Indo-Pacific Climate Variability and Drought in the Monsoon Asia Drought Atlas, Climate Dynamics, 40, 5--6, 1319--1334, doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1458-1, 2013.

Cook, E.R., P.J. Krusic, K.J. Anchukaitis, B.M. Buckley, T. Nakatsuka, M. Sano and the PAGES Asia 2k members, Tree-ring reconstructed summer temperature anomalies for temperate East Asia since 800 C.E., Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1611-x, 2012.

Anchukaitis, K.J., P. Breitenmoser, K. R. Briffa, A. Buchwal, U. Buntgen, E. R. Cook, R. D. D’Arrigo, J. Esper, M.N. Evans, D. Frank, H. Grudd, B. Gunnarson, M.K. Hughes, A.V. Kirdyanov, C. Korner, P. Krusic, B. Luckman, T.M. Melvin, M.W. Salzer, A.V. Shashkin, C. Timmreck, E.A. Vaganov, R. Wilson, Tree rings and volcanic cooling, Nature Geoscience, 5, 836–837, doi:10.1038/ngeo1645, 2012.

Anchukaitis, K.J. and J.E. Tierney, Identifying coherent spatiotemporal modes in time-uncertain proxy paleoclimate records, Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1483-0, 2012.

Cook, B.I., A.R. Bell, K.J. Anchukaitis, B.M. Buckley, Snow and precipitation impacts on dry season streamflow in the Lower Mekong Basin, Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, D16116, doi:10.1029/2012JD017708, 2012.

Cook, B.I., K.J. Anchukaitis, J.O. Kaplan, M. Puma, M. Kelley, D. Gueyffier, Pre-Columbian deforestation as an amplifier of drought in Mesoamerica, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2012GL052565, 2012. [Earth Institute] [UPI] [io9] [CBC] [Huffington Post] [Discover Magazine] [Summit County Voice] [MSNBC] [Christian Science Monitor] [Smithsonian]

Pederson, N., A.R. Bell, T.A. Knight, C. Leland, N. Malcomb, K.J. Anchukaitis, K. Tackett, J. Scheff, A. Brice, B. Catron, W. Blozan, J. Riddle, Long-term perspective on a modern drought in the American Southeast, Environmental Research Letters, 7, 014034, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014034, 2012. [Data] [Earth Institute] [Environmental Research Web] [Scientific American]

D'Arrigo, R.D., K.J. Anchukaitis, B.M. Buckley, E.R. Cook, R. Wilson, Regional climatic and North Atlantic Oscillation signatures in West Virginia red cedar over the past millennium, Global and Planetary Change, 84–85, 8–13, doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.07.003, 2012.

† Andreu-Hayles, L., R.D. D'Arrigo, K.J. Anchukaitis, P. Beck, D. Frank, A. Verstege, S. Goetz, Varying boreal forest response to Arctic environmental change at the Firth River, Alaska, Environmental Research Letters, 6, 045503, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/045503, 2011. [Earth Institute] [DotEarth] [UPI] [EarthSky] [Alaska Dispatch] [NSF]

† Bell, A.E., B.I. Cook, K.J. Anchukaitis, B.M. Buckley, E.R. Cook, Repurposing climate reconstructions for drought prediction in southeast Asia, Climatic Change, 106(4), 691-698, doi:10.1007/s10584-011-0064-2, 2011.

Meko, D.M., R. Touchan, K.J. Anchukaitis, SEASCORR: a MATLAB program for identifying the seasonal climate signal in an annual tree-ring time series, Computers and Geosciences, 37(9), 1234-1241, doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2011.01.013, 2011

Vaganov, E.A., K.J. Anchukaitis, M.N. Evans, How well understood are the processes that create dendroclimatic records? A mechanistic model of climatic control on conifer tree-ring growth dynamics, in M.K. Hughes, T.W. Swetnam, and H.F. Diaz (eds), Dendroclimatology: Progress and Prospects, Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, 11(2), 37-75, doi: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5725-0_3, 2011. [preprint]

† Andreu-Hayles, L., O. Planells, E. Gutierrez, E. Muntan, G. Helle, K.J. Anchukaitis, G. Schleser, Long tree-ring chronologies reveal 20th century increases in water-use efficiency but no enhancement of tree growth at five Iberian pine forests, Global Change Biology, 17(6), 2095-2112, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02373.x, 2011.

Cook, B.I., E.R. Cook, K.J. Anchukaitis, R. Seager, R. L. Miller, Forced and Unforced Variability of 20th Century North American Droughts and Pluvials, Climate Dynamics, 37, 1097-1110, doi: 10.1007/s00382-010-0897-9, 2011.

Anchukaitis, K.J., B.M. Buckley, E.R. Cook, B.I. Cook, R.D. D'Arrigo, C.M. Ammann, The influence of volcanic eruptions on the climate of the Asian monsoon region, Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L22703, doi:10.1029/2010GL044843, 2010. [Earth Institute] [NSF] [Reuters] [Scientific American] [Discovery] [Der Spiegel] [Yale 360] [research.gov]

‡ Tolwinski-Ward, S.E., M.N. Evans, M.K. Hughes, K.J. Anchukaitis, An efficient forward model of the climate controls on interannual variation in tree-ring width, Climate Dynamics, 36(11-12): 2419-2439, doi:10.1007/s00382-010-0945-5, 2010. [Erratum] [Model @ NCDC]

Cook, E.R., K.J. Anchukaitis, B.M. Buckley, R.D. D'Arrigo, G.C. Jacoby, W.E. Wright, Asian monsoon failure and megadrought during the last millennium, Science, 328(5977), 486-489, doi:10.1126/science.1185188, 2010.
[Data: NCDC | INGRID] [Science] [Earth Institute] [NSF] [Nature] [Discovery] [CBC] [ABC] [Voice of America] [The Independent] [Japan Times] [Agence France-Presse]

Touchan, R., K.J. Anchukaitis, D.M. Meko, M. Sabir, S. Attalah, A. Aloui, Spatiotemporal drought variability in northwestern Africa over the last nine centuries, Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-010-0804-4, 2010. [UA] [Earth Institute]

Buckley, B.M., K.J. Anchukaitis, D. Penny, R. Fletcher, E.R. Cook, M. Sano, Le Canh Nam, A. Wichienkeeo, Ton That Minh, Truong Mai Hong, Climate as a contributing factor in the demise of Angkor, Cambodia, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(15), 6748-6752, doi:10.1073/pnas.0910827107, 2010. [Data, ITRDB]
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Earth Institute] [NSF] [LA Times] [MSNBC] [Not Exactly Rocket Science] [Voice of America] [Der Spiegel] [USA Today] [Environmental Research Web] [Quirks and Quarks] [Washington Post] [3 Quarks Daily] [Summit County Voice] [Columbia Magazina]

Anchukaitis, K.J. and M.N. Evans, Tropical cloud forest climate variability and the demise of the Monteverde Golden Toad, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(11), 5036-5040, doi:10.1073/pnas.0908572107, 2010. [Data] [Science News] [Environmental Research Web] [Earth Institute]

Cook, B.I., E.R. Cook, K.J. Anchukaitis, P. Huth, J.E. Thompson, S. Smiley, A homogeneous record (1896-2006) of daily meteorology and climate at Mohonk Lake, New York, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 49, 544-555, doi:10.1175/2009JAMC2221.1, 2010.
[Earth Institute] [Reuters] [Climate Central]

Shanahan, T.M, J.T. Overpeck, K.J. Anchukaitis, J.W. Beck, J.E. Cole, D. Dettman, J. Peck, C.A. Scholz, J. King, Atlantic forcing of persistent drought in West Africa, Science, 324(5925), 377-380, doi:10.1126/science.1166352, 2009. [Data @ NCDC] [New York Times] [BBC] [DotEarth] [New Scientist] [UA] [Earth Institute]

McCarroll, D., M.H. Gagen, N.J, Loader, I. Robertson, K.J. Anchukaitis, S.O. Los, R. Jalkanen, A. Kirchefer, J.S. Waterhouse, Correction of tree ring stable carbon isotope chronologies for changes in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73(6), 1539-1547, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2008.11.041, 2009. [Erratum]

D'Arrigo, R.D., G. Jacoby, B.M. Buckley, J. Sakulich, D. Frank, R. Wilson, A. Curtis, K.J. Anchukaitis, Tree growth and inferred temperature variability at the North American Arctic treeline, Global and Planetary Change, 65(1-2), 71-82, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.10.0112008, 2009.

Anchukaitis, K.J., M.N. Evans, N.T. Wheelwright, and D.P. Schrag, Isotope chronology and climate signal calibration in neotropical cloud forest trees, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, G03030, doi:10.1029/2007JG000613, 2008.

Touchan, R., K.J. Anchukaitis, D.M. Meko, S. Attalah, C. Baisan, and A. Aloui, The long term context for recent drought in northwestern Africa, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L13705, doi:10.1029/2008GL034264, 2008. [Science Editors' Choice] [AGU Journal Highlights]

D'Arrigo, R., P. Baker, J. Palmer, K.J. Anchukaitis, and G. Cook, Experimental reconstruction of monsoon drought variability for Australasia using tree rings and corals, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L12709, doi:10.1029/2008GL034393, 2008.

Anchukaitis, K.J., M.N. Evans, T. Lange, D.R. Smith., D.P. Schrag, and S.W. Leavitt, Consequences of a rapid cellulose extraction technique for oxygen isotope and radiocarbon analyses, Analytical Chemistry, 80, 2035-2041, doi:10.1021/ac7020272, 2008.

Gagen, M., D. McCarroll, N.J. Loader, I. Robertson, R. Jalkanen, and K.J. Anchukaitis, Exorcising the 'segment length curse': summer temperature reconstruction since AD1640 using non-detrended stable carbon isotope ratios from pine trees in Finnish Lapland, The Holocene, 17, 435-446, doi:10.1177/0959683607077012, 2007.

Anchukaitis, K.J., M.N. Evans, A. Kaplan, E.A. Vaganov, M.K. Hughes, H.D. Grissino-Mayer, and M.A. Cane, Forward modeling of regional-scale tree-ring patterns in the southeastern United States and the recent emergence of summer drought stress, Geophysical Research Letters, 33(4), L04705, doi:10.1029/2005GL025050, 2006.

Evans, M.N., B.K. Reichert, A. Kaplan, K.J. Anchukaitis, E.A. Vaganov, M.K. Hughes, and M.A. Cane, A forward modeling approach to paleoclimatic interpretation of tree-ring data, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, G03008, doi:10.1029/2006JG000166, 2006.

Anchukaitis, K.J. and S.P. Horn, A 2000-year reconstruction of forest disturbance from southern Pacific Costa Rica. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 221(1-2), doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.02.003, 35-54, 2005.