Tree Ring
climate reconstruction
Working with dendroclimatologists to study climate, streamflow, lake level, and society
Xu, C., S.-Y. Wang, K. Borhara, B. Buckley, et al., 2023: Global warming strengthens the linkage of Asian-Australian summer monsoons with ENSO. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, in press (PDF)
Keen, R. M., S. L. Voelker, S.-Y. Wang, B. J. Bentz, and Coauthors, 2021: Changes in tree drought sensitivity provided early warning signals to the California drought and forest mortality event. Global Change Biology, in press (PDF)
Xu, C., Q. Zhao, W. An, S.-Y. Wang, N. Tan, M. Sano, T. Nakatsuka, K. Borhara, Z. Guo, 2021: Tree-ring oxygen isotope across monsoon Asia: Common signal and local influence. Quaternary Science Reviews, DOI:10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107156 (PDF)
Xu C, B. M. Buckley, S.-Y. Wang, W. An, Z. Li, T. Nakatsuka, Z. Guo, 2021: Oxygen Isotopes in Tree Rings from Greenland: A New Proxy of NAO. Atmosphere. 12(1):39, DOI:10.3390/atmos12010039.
Zhang, P., J.-H. Jeong, J.-H. Yoon, H. Kim, S.-Y. Wang, H. W. Linderholm, K. Fang, X. Wu, D. Chen, 2020: Abrupt shift to hotter and drier climate over inner East Asia beyond the tipping point. Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.abb3368 (PDF)
Keen, R. M., S. L. Voelker, B. J. Bentz, S. -Y. Wang, and R. Ferrell, 2020: Stronger influence of growth rate than severity of drought stress on mortality of large ponderosa pines during the 2012-2015 California drought. Oecologia, DOI:10.1007/s00442-020-04771-0 (PDF)
Xu, C., H. Zhu, S.-Y. Wang, et al., 2020: Onset and mature of Asian summer monsoon reconstructed from intra-annual tree ring oxygen isotopes of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Research, DOI: 10.1017/qua.2020.28 (PDF)
Xu, C., B. M. Buckley, P. Promchote, S.-Y. Wang, and Coauthors, 2019: Increased variability of Thailand’s Chao Phraya River peak-season flow and its association with ENSO variability: Evidence from tree ring δ18O. Geophysical Research Letters, DOI:10.1029/2018GL081458 (PDF)
Voelker, S. L., S.-Y. Wang, T. E. Dawson, J. S. Roden, C. J. Still , F. J. Longstaffe, and A. Ayalon, 2019: Tree-ring isotopes adjacent to Lake Superior reveal cold winter anomalies for the Great Lakes region of North America. Scientific Reports, 9, #4412, PDF.
Xu, C., W. An, S.-Y. Wang, Liang Yi, et al., 2019: Increased drought events in Southwest China revealed by tree ring oxygen isotopes and potential role of Indian Ocean Dipole. Science of the Total Environment, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.186 (graphic abstract)
Barandiaran, D., S.-Y. Wang, and R. J. DeRose, 2017: Gridded Snow Water Equivalent Reconstruction for Utah using Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Tree-Ring Data. Water, 9(6), 403; doi:10.3390/w9060403 (PDF).
Sun, Y., M. Bekker, J. R. DeRose, R. Kjelgren, and S.-Y. Wang, 2016: Statistical treatment for the wet bias in tree-ring chronologies - a case study from the Interior West, USA. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, DOI 10.1007/s10651-016-0363-x (PDF).
Buckley, B. M., D. Stahle, H. T. Luu, S.-Y. Wang, T. Q. Nguyen, P. Thomas, C. N. Le, T. M. Ton, T. H. Bui, and V. T. Nguyen, 2016: Central Vietnam climate over the past five centuries from cypress tree rings. Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3297-y (PDF).
Gillies, R. R., O.-Y. Chung, S.-Y. Wang, J. DeRose, and Y. Sun, 2015: Added value from 576 years of tree-ring record in the prediction of the Great Salt Lake level. Journal of Hydrology, 529, 962–968 (PDF).
DeRose, J. R., M. Bekker, S.-Y. Wang, R. Kjelgren, E. B. Allen, T. Bardsley, and B. M. Buckley, 2015: A millennium-length reconstruction of Bear River stream flow, Utah. Journal of Hydrology, 529, 524–534 (PDF).
DeRose, J. R., S.-Y. Wang, and J. Shaw, 2014: Using Inventory-based Tree-ring Data as a Proxy for Historical Climate: Investigating the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and teleconnections. The International Forestry Review, 16, 406-.
Buckley, B. M., R. Fletcher, S.-Y. Wang, B. Zottoli, and C. Pottier, 2014: Monsoon extremes and society over the past millennium on mainland Southeast Asia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 95, 1-19. (open access)
DeRose, J. R., S.-Y. Wang, B. M. Buckley, and M. Bekker, 2014: Tree-ring reconstruction of the Great Salt Lake level. The Holocene. DOI: 10.1177/0959683614530441.
