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Publications Since 1987:

Year 2006

Cook, E.R., Seager, R., Cane, M.A. and Stahle, D.W. 2006. North American drought: reconstructions, causes and consequences. Earth Science Reviews (submitted).

Cook, E.R., Buckley, B.M., Palmer, J.G., Fenwick, P., Peterson, M.J., Boswijk, G. and Fowler, A. 2006. Millennia-long tree-ring records from Tasmania and New Zealand: a basis for modeling climate variability and forcing past, present, and future. Journal of Quaternary Science (submitted).

Cook, E.R. and Pederson, N. 2006. Uncertainty, emergence, and statistics in dendrochronology. In Hughes, M.K., Swetnam, T.W. and Diaz, H.F, eds., Dendroclimatology: Progress and Prospects. Springer series "Developments in Paleoecological Research" (DPER), (in press).

D Arrigo, R.D., Wilson, R., Deser, C., Wiles, G., Cook, E., Villalba, R., Tudhope, A., Cole, J. and Linsley, B. 2006. Tropical-north Pacific climate linkages over the past four centuries. Journal of Climate (submitted).

Herweijer, C., Seager, R. and Cook, E.R. 2006. North American droughts of the mid-to-late nineteenth century: a history, simulation and implication for Medieval drought. The Holocene (in press).

Herweijer, C., Seager, R., Cook, E.R. and Emile-Geay, J. 2006. North American droughts of the last millennium from a gridded network of tree-ring data. Journal of Climate (in press).

van der Schrier, G., Briffa, K.R., Osborn, T. and Cook, E. 2006. Summer moisture availability across North America. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres (in press).

Year 2005

D Arrigo, R.D., Cook, E.R., Wilson, R.J., Allan, R. and Mann, M.E. 2005. On the variability of ENSO over the past six centuries. Geophysical Research Letters 32, L03711, doi:10.1029/2004GL022055.

Schoennagel, T., Veblen, T.T., Romme, W.H., Sibold, J.S. and Cook, E.R. 2005. ENSO and PDO variability affect drought-induced fire occurrence in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests. Ecological Applications 15(6):2000-2014.

Woodhouse, C.W., Kunkel, K.E., Easterling. D.R. and Cook, E.R. 2005. The 20th century pluvial in the western United States. Geophysical Research Letters 32, L07701, doi:10.1029/2005GL022413.

Year 2004

Buckley, B.M., Wilson, R.J.S., Kelly, P.E., Larson, D.W. and Cook, E.R. 2004. Inferred summer precipitation for southern Ontario back to AD 610, as reconstructed from ring widths of Thuja occidentalis. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34:2541-2553.

Cook, E.R., Esper, J. and D Arrigo, R.D. 2004. Extra-tropical Northern Hemisphere land temperature variability over the past 1000 years Quaternary Science Reviews 23:2063-2074.

Cook, E.R., Woodhouse, C., Eakin, C.M., Meko, D.M. and Stahle, D.W. 2004. Long-term aridity changes in the western United States. Science 306:1015-1018.

Fye, F.K., Stahle, D.W. and Cook, E.R. 2004. Twentieth century sea surface temperture patterns in the Pacific during decadal moisture regimes over the USA. Earth Interactions 8(22):1-22.

Pederson, N., Cook, E.R., Jacoby, G.C., Peteet, D.M. and Griffin, K.L. 2004. The influence of winter temperatures on the annual radial growth of six northern range margin tree species. Dendrochronologia 22:7-29.

Shulmeister, J., Goodwind, I., Renwick, J., Harle, K., Armand, L., McGlone, M.S., Cook, E., Dodson, J., Hesse, P.P., Mayewski, P. and Curran, M. 2004. The Southern Hemisphere westerlies in the Australasian sector over the last glacial cycle: a synthesis. Quaternary International 118-119:23-53.

Zhang, Z., Mann, M.E., and Cook, E.R. 2004. Alternative methods of proxy-based climate field reconstruction: Application to the reconstruction of summer drought over the conterminous United States back to 1700 from drought-sensitive tree ring data. The Holocene 14(4):502-516.

Year 2003

Cook, E.R. 2003. Multi-proxy reconstructions of the North Atlantic Oscillation index: a critical review and a new well-verified winter NAO index reconstruction back to AD 1400. The North Atlantic Oscillation. American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph 134, edited by J.W. Hurrell, Y. Kushnir, G. Ottersen, and M.H. Visbeck, AGU, pp. 63-79.

Cook, E.R., Krusic, P.J. and Jones, P.D. 2003. Dendroclimatic signals in long tree-ring chronologies from the Himalayas of Nepal. International Journal of Climatology 23:707-732.

Esper, J., Cook, E.R., Krusic, P.J., Peters, K. and Schweingruber, F.H. 2003. Tests of the RCS method for preserving low-frequency variability in long tree-ring chronologies. Tree-Ring Research 59(2):81-98.

D Arrigo, R.D., Cook, E.R., Mann, M. and Jacoby, G. 2003. Tree-ring reconstructions of temperature and sea level pressure variability associated with the warm-season Arctic Oscillation since AD 1650. Geophysical Research Letters 30(11), doi:10.1029/2003GL017250.

Fye, F., Stahle, D.W. and Cook, E.R. 2003. Paleoclimatic analogs to 20th century moisture regimes across the USA. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 84(7):901-909.

Year 2002

Cole, J.E., Overpeck, J.T. and Cook, E.R. 2002. Multiyear La Nina events and persistent drought in the contiguous United States. Geophysical Research Letters 29(13):10.1029/2001GL013561.

Cook, E.R., D Arrigo, R.D. and Mann, M.E. 2002. A well-verified, multi-proxy reconstruction of the winter North Atlantic oscillation index since AD 1400. Journal of Climate 15(13):1754-1764.

Cook, E.R., Palmer, J.G., Cook, B.I., Hogg, A. and D Arrigo, R.D. 2002. A multi-millennial palaeoclimatic resource from Lagarostrobos colensoi tree-rings at Oroko Swamp, New Zealand. Global and Planetary Change 33:209-220.

Cook, E.R., Palmer, J.G. and D Arrigo, R.D. 2002. Evidence for a Medieval Warm Period  in a 1,100 Year Tree-Ring Reconstruction of Past Austral Summer Temperatures in New Zealand. Geophysical Research Letters 29(14):10.1029/2001GL014580.

Esper, J., Cook, E.R. and Schweingruber, F. 2002. Low-frequency signals in long tree-ring chronologies for reconstructing past temperature variability. Science 295:2250-2253.

Year 2001

Allen, K.J., Cook, E.R., Francey, R.J. and Michael, K. 2001. The climatic response of Phyllocladus aspleniifolius (Labill.) Hook.f in Tasmania. Journal of Biogeography 28(3):305-316.

Cook, E.R., Glitzenstein, J.S., Krusic, P.J., and Harcombe, P.A. 2001. Identifying functional groups of trees in west Gulf Coast forests (USA): a tree-ring Approach. Ecological Applications11(3):883-903.

Cullen, H., D'Arrigo, R., Cook, E. and Mann, M.E. 2001. Multiproxy-based reconstructions of the North Atlantic Oscillation over the past three centuries, Paleoceanography 15:27-39.

Pederson, N., Jacoby, G.C., D'Arrigo, R.D., Cook, E.R. and Buckley, B.M. 2001. Hydrometeorological reconstructions for northeastern Mongolia derived from tree rings: 1651-1995. Journal of Climate 14:872-881.

Tudhope, A.W., Chilcott, C.P., McCulloch, M.T., Cook, E.R., Chappel, J., Ellam, R.M., Lea, D.W., Lough, J.M. and Shimmield, G.B. 2001. Variability in the El Niņo Southern Oscillation through the glacial-interglacial cycle. Science 291:1511-1517.

Villalba, R., D'Arrigo, R.D., Cook, E.R., Jacoby, G.C. and Wiles, G. 2001. Decadal-scale climatic variability along the extratropical western coast of the Americas: Evidence from tree-ring records. In: Interhemispheric Climate Linkages. Academic Press, New York. pp.155-172.

Year 2000

Cook E.R., Buckley B.M., D'Arrigo R.D., and Peterson, M.J. 2000. Warm-season temperatures since 1600 B.C. reconstructed from Tasmanian tree rings and their relationship to large-scale sea surface temperature anomalies. Climate Dynamics 16(2/3):79-91.

Stahle, D.W., Cook, E.R., Cleaveland, M.K., Therrell, M.D., Meko, D.M., Grissino-Mayer, H.D., Watson, E. and Luckman, B.H. 2000. Tree-ring data document 16th century megadrought over North America. EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 81(12):121,125.

Year 1999

Cook, E.R., Meko, D.M., Stahle, D.W., and Cleaveland, M.K. 1999. Drought reconstructions for the continental United States. Journal of Climate 12:1145-1162.

Year 1998

Cole, J.E. and Cook, E.R. 1998. The changing relationship between ENSO variability and moisture balance in the continental United States. Geophysical Research Letters 25(24):4529-4532.

Cook, E.R., D'Arrigo, R.D., and Briffa, K.R. 1998. A reconstruction of the North Atlantic Oscillation using tree-ring chronologies from North America and Europe. The Holocene 8(1):9-17.

Cook, E.R., Nance, W.L., Krusic, P.J. and Grissom, J. 1998. Modeling the differential sensitivity of Loblolly Pine to climate change using tree rings. In Mickler, R.A. and Fox, S., eds., The Productivity and Sustainability of Southern Forest Ecosystems in a Changing Environment. Ecological Studies 128. Springer, New York. pp. 717-739.

DÕArrigo, R.D., Cook, E.R., Salinger, M.J., Palmer, J., Krusic, P.J., Buckley, B.M. and Villalba, R. 1998. Tree-ring records from New Zealand: long-term context for recent warming trend. Climate Dynamics 14:191-199.

Harcombe, P.A., Hall, R.B.W., Glitzenstein, J.S., Cook, E.R., Krusic, P., Fulton, M. and Streng, D.R. 1998. Sensitivity of Gulf Coast forests to climate change. In Guntenspergen, G.R. and Vairin, B.A., eds., Vulnerability of coastal wetlands in the Southeastern United States: climate change research results, 1992-1997. U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division Biological Science Report USGS/BRD/BSR -- 1998-0002. pp. 45-66.

Year 1997

Buckley, B.M., Cook, E.R., Peterson, M.J. and Barbetti, M. 1997. A changing temperature response with elevation for Lagarostrobos franklinii in Tasmania, Australia. Climatic Change 36:477-498.

Cook, E.R., Meko, D.M. and Stockton, C.W. 1997. A new assessment of possible solar and lunar forcing of the bi-decadal drought rhythm in the western United States. Journal of Climate 10:1343-1356.

Cook, E.R. and Peters, K. 1997. Calculating unbiased tree-ring indices for the study of climatic and environmental change. The Holocene 7(3):359-368.

Villalba, R., Cook, E.R., D'Arrigo, R.D., Jacoby, G.C., Jones, P.D., Salinger, J.M. and Palmer, J. 1997. Sea-level pressure variability around Antarctica since A.D. 1750 inferred from subantarctic tree-ring records. Climate Dynamics 13:375-390.

Year 1996

Cook, E.R., Francey, R.J., Buckley, B.M. and D'Arrigo, R.D. 1996. Recent increases in Tasmanian Huon pine ring widths from a sub-alpine stand: natural climate variability, CO2 fertilization, or greenhouse warming? Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 130(2):65-72.

Cook, E.R., Meko, D.M., Stahle, D.W. and Cleaveland, M.K. 1996. Tree-ring reconstructions of past drought across the coterminous United States: tests of a regression method and calibration/verification results. In Dean, J.S., Meko, D.M. and Swetnam, T.W., eds., Tree Rings, Environment, and Humanity. Radiocarbon, Tucson. pp. 155-169.

Cook, E.R., Buckley, B.M. and D'Arrigo, R.D. 1996. Inter-decadal climate variability in the Southern Hemisphere: Evidence from Tasmanian tree rings over the past three millennia. In: Jones, P.D., Bradley, R.S. and Jouzel, J., eds., Climate Variations and Forcing Mechanisms of the Last 2,000 Years. NATO ASI Series, Vol. I41, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. 141-160.

D'Arrigo, R.D., Cook, E.R., Jacoby, G.C. and Buckley, B.M. 1996. Tree-ring records of subantarctic climate over recent centuries to millennia. In Dean, J.S., Meko, D.M. and Swetnam, T.W., eds., Tree Rings, Environment, and Humanity. Radiocarbon, Tucson. pp. 171-180.

Year 1995

Barbetti, M., Bird, T., Dolezal, G., Taylor, G., Francey, R., Cook, E. and Peterson, M. 1995. Radiocarbon variations from Tasmanian conifers: results from three early Holocene logs. In Cook, G.T., Harkness, D.D., Miller, B.F. and Scott, E.M., eds., Proceedings of the 14th International 14C Conference. Radiocarbon 37(2):361-369).

Briffa, K.R., Jones, P.D., Schweingruber, F.H., Shiyatov, S.G. and Cook, E.R. 1995. Unusual twentieth century summer warmth in a 1,000-year temperature record from Siberia. Nature 376:156-159.

Cook, E.R. 1995. Temperature histories in tree rings and corals. Climate Dynamics 11:211-222.

Cook, E.R., Briffa, K.R., Meko, D.M., Graybill, D.A. and Funkhouser, G. 1995. The segment length curse in long tree-ring chronology development for paleoclimatic studies. The Holocene 5(2):229-237.

Cook, E.R., Buckley, B.M. and D'Arrigo, R.D. 1995. Decadal-scale oscillatory modes in a millennia-long temperature reconstruction from Tasmania. In: Martinson, D.G., Bryan, K., Ghil, M., Hall, M.M., Karl, T.R., Sarachik, E.S., Sorooshian, S. and Talley, L.D., eds., Natural Climate Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 523-531.

D'Arrigo, R.D., Buckley, B.M., Cook, E.R. and Wagner, W.S. 1995. Temperature-sensitive tree-ring width chronologies of pink pine (Halocarpus biformis) from Stewart Island, New Zealand. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 119:293-300.

Year 1994

Cook, E.R., Briffa, K.R. and Jones, P.D. 1994. Spatial regression methods in dendroclimatology: a review and comparison of two techniques. International Journal of Climatology 14:379-402.

D'Arrigo, R.D., Cook, E.R., Jacoby, G.C. and Briffa, K.R. 1994. NAO and sea surface temperature signals in tree-ring records from the North Atlantic sector. Quaternary Science Reviews 12:431-440.

Kelly, P.E., Cook, E.R. and Larson, D.W. 1994. A 1397-yr tree-ring chronology of Thuja occidentalis from cliff-faces of the Niagara escarpment, southern Ontario, Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 24:1049-1057.

Year 1993

Barbetti, M., Bird, T., Dolezal, G., Taylor, G., Francey, R., Cook, E. and Peterson, M. 1993. Radiocarbon variations from Tasmanian conifers: first results from late Pleistocene and Holocene logs. In Long, A. and Kra, R., eds., Proceedings of the 14th International 14C Conference. Radiocarbon 34(3):806-817.

Meko, D.M., Cook, E.R., Stahle, D.W., Stockton, C.W. and Hughes, M.K. 1993. Spatial patterns of tree- growth anomalies in the United States and southeastern Canada. Journal of Climate 6:1773-1786.

Webb, S.L., Glenn, M.G., Cook, E.R., Wagner, W.S. and Thetford, R.D. 1993. Range edge red spruce in New Jersey, U.S.A.: bog versus upland population structure and climate responses. Journal of Biogeography 20:63-78.

Year 1992

Barbetti, M., Bird, T., Dolezal, G., Taylor, G., Francey, R., Cook, E. and Peterson, M. 1992. Radiocarbon variations from Tasmanian conifers: first results from late Pleistocene and Holocene logs. Radiocarbon 34(3):806-817.

Cleaveland, M. K., Cook, E. R., and Stahle, D. W. 1992. Secular variability of the Southern Oscillation detected in tree-ring data from Mexico and the southern United States. In: Diaz, H. and Markgraf, V., eds., Paleoclimatic Aspects of ENSO. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pp. 271-291.

Cook, E.R. and Zedaker, S.M. 1992. The dendroecology of red spruce decline. In Eagar, C. and Adams, M.B., eds., Ecology and Decline of Red Spruce in the Eastern United States. Ecological Studies 96. Springer-Verlag New York. pp. 192-231.

Cook, E. R., Bird, T., Peterson, M., Barbetti, M., Buckley, B., D'Arrigo, R. and Francey, R. 1992. Climatic change over the last millennium in Tasmania reconstructed from tree rings. The Holocene 2,3:205-217.

Cook, E. R., Stahle, D. W. and Cleaveland, M. K. 1992. Dendroclimatic evidence from eastern North America. In: Bradley, R.S. and P.D. Jones, eds., Climate Since 1500. Routledge, London. pp. 331-348.

D'Arrigo, R.D., Jacoby, G.C. and Cook, E.R. 1992. Impact of recent north Atlantic anomalies on surrounding land areas based on dendroclimatic evidence. Geophysical Research Letters 19(23):2321-2324.

Johnson, A.H., McLaughlin, S.B., Adams, M.B., Cook, E.R., DeHayes, D.H. and Eagar, C. 1992. Epidemiological and mechanistic studies. In Eagar, C. and Adams, M.B., eds., Ecology and Decline of Red Spruce in the Eastern United States. Ecological Studies 96. Springer-Verlag New York.

Kelly, P.E., Cook, E.R. and Larson, D.W. 1992. Constrained growth, cambial mortality, and dendrochronology of ancient Thuya occidentalis on cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment: an eastern version of bristlecone pine? International Journal of Plant Science 153(1):117-127.

Stolte, K.W., Duriscoe, D.M., Cook, E.R. and Cline, S.P. 1992. Methods of assessing responses of trees, stands and ecosystems to air pollution. In Olson, R.K., Binkley, D. and Bohm, M., eds. The Response of Western Forests to Air Pollution. Ecological Studies 97. Springer-Verlag, New York. pp. 259-330.

Year 1991

Cook, E.R. 1991. Tree rings as indicators of climate change and the potential response of forests to the greenhouse effect. In Wyman, R.L., ed., Global Climate Change and Life on Earth. Routledge, Chapman and Hall, New York. pp. 56-64.

Cook, E. R. and Cole, J. 1991. Predicting the response of forests in eastern North America to future climatic change. Climatic Change 19:271-282.

Cook, E. R., Bird, T., Peterson, M., Barbetti, M., Buckley, B., D'Arrigo, R., Francey, R., and Tans, P. 1991. Climatic change in Tasmania inferred from a 1089-year tree-ring chronology of subalpine huon pine. Science 253:1266-1268.

Van Deusen, P.C., Reams, G.A., Cook, E.R. 1991. Possible red spruce decline: Contributions of tree-ring analysis. Journal of Forestry 89(1):20-24.

Year 1990

Cook, E. R. 1990. Bootstrap confidence intervals for red spruce ring-width chronologies and an assessment of age-related bias in recent growth trends. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 20(9):1326-1331.

Year 1989

Cook, E.R. and Innes, J. 1989. Tree-ring analysis as an aid to evaluating the effects of air pollution on tree growth. Biologic Markers of Air-Pollution Stress and Damage in Forests. Committee on Biologic Markers of Air-Pollution Damage in Trees (Woodwell, G.M., chairman), National Research Council. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. pp. 157-168.

Cook, E.R. and Johnson, A.H. 1989. Climate change and forest decline: a review of the red spruce case. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 48:127-140.

Innes, J. and Cook, E.R. 1989. Tree-ring analysis as an aid to evaluating the effects of pollution on tree growth. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 19:1174-1189.

Year 1988

Cook, E.R. 1988. A tree ring analysis of red spruce in the southern Appalachian Mountains. In Van Deusen, P., ed., Analyses of Great Smokey Mountain Red Spruce Tree Ring Data. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report SO-69, pp. 6-19.

Cook, E. R., Kablack, M. and Jacoby, G. J. 1988. The 1986 drought in the southeastern United States: how rare an event was it? Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres 93(D11): 14257-14260.

Cook, E.R. and Johnson, A.H. 1988. Threshold responses and climatic change: possible contributors to the decline of red spruce. In Hertel, G., tech. coord., Proceedings of the US/FRG Research Symposium: Effects of Atmospheric Pollutants on the Spruce-Fir Forests of the Eastern United States and the Federal Republic of Germany. General Technical Report NE-120, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, Broomall, PA. pp. 311-322.

Johnson, A.H., Cook, E.R. and Siccama, T.G. 1988. Climate and red spruce growth and decline in the northern Appalachians. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 85:5369-5373.

Johnson, A.H., Cook, E.R. and Siccama, T.G. 1988. Tree rings, climate, and red spruce decline. In Hertel, G., tech. coord., Proceedings of the US/FRG Research Symposium: Effects of Atmospheric Pollutants on the Spruce-Fir Forests of the Eastern United States and the Federal Republic of Germany. General Technical Report NE-120, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, Broomall, PA. pp. 299-309.

Sheppard, P.R. and Cook, E.R. 1988. Scientific value of trees in old-growth natural areas. Natural Areas Journal 8(1):7-12.

Year 1987

Cook, E. R. 1987. The decomposition of tree-ring series for environmental studies. Tree-Ring Bulletin 47:37-59.

Cook, E.R. 1987. The use and limitations of dendrochronology in studying effects of air pollution on forests. In Hutchinson, T.C. and Meema, K.M., eds., Effects of Atmospheric Pollutants on Forests, Wetlands and Agricultural Ecosystems. NATO ASI Series, Series G: Ecological Sciences, Vol. 16. pp. 277-290.

Cook, E.R., Johnson, A.H. and Blasing, T.J. 1987. Forest decline: modeling the effect of climate in tree rings. Tree Physiology 3:27-40.

Cook, E.R. and Mayes, P. 1987. Decadal-scale patterns of climatic change over eastern North America inferred from tree rings. In Berger, W.H. and Labeyrie, L.D., eds., Abrupt Climatic Change: Evidence and Implications. NATO ASI Series, Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 216. pp. 61-66.

McLaughlin, S.B., Downing, D.J., Blasing, T.J., Cook, E.R. and Adams, H.S. 1987. An analysis of climate and competition as contributors to decline of red spruce in high elevation Appalachian forests of the Eastern United States. Oecologia 72:487-501.