Edward R Cook

Datos Biográficos

ID247283
NOMBREEdward R Cook
NOMBRESEdward R
APELLIDOCook
FIRMACOOK E R
AFILIACIONESLamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
ORCID0000-0001-7478-4176
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS52
TOTAL DE CITAS124
TOTAL COMO AUTOR52
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1943
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H5

  • A Common Era Tree-Ring Chronology Sensitive to Cool-Season Temperatures for the Southern Hemisphere

    Kathryn Allen, Edward R Cook et al.ARTICLETree-Ring Research2025

    Annually resolved multi-millennial records of temperature are rare in the Southern Hemisphere (SH), and even rarer are SH records of cool-season temperature. Here we present a new tree-ring chronology extending back to 42 BCE based on Athrotaxis selaginoides from southern Tasmania. The development of this chronology was complicated by multiple tree-age cohorts and growth classes. Additionally, there was a collapse in sample depth between the mid-…

  • The Moderating Effect of Mental Health on the Relationship Between Cardiovascular Disease Awareness and Health Behaviors of Middle-Aged Korean Chinese Workers With Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Korea

    Open AccessRob Wilson, Yu Zhu Zhang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Transcultural Nursing2023

    Understanding relationships between CVD awareness, socioculturally mediated health behaviors, and mental health issues is critical to CVD prevention among participants; moreover, mental health should be specifically assessed and targeted for improvement

  • Examining past and projecting future

    Open AccessPhilippa Higgins, Jonathan Palmer et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Managing water security and sustaining ecosystem functions under future warming poses substantial challenges for semi-arid regions. The Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) is particularly vulnerable given the considerable demand for water that underpins Australia’s agricultural production and contribution to the national economy. Understanding future drought risk requires a robust assessment of natural variability in drought length, frequency, and magnitu…

  • The feasibility of reconstructing hydroclimate over West Africa using tree-ring chronologies in the Mediterranean region

    Open AccessBoniface Fosu, Edward R Cook et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Dendrochronology in West Africa has not yet been developed despite encouraging reports suggesting the potential for long tree-ring reconstructions of hydroclimate in the tropics. This paper shows that even in the absence of local tree chronologies, it is possible to reconstruct the hydroclimate of a region using remote tree rings. We present the West Sub-Saharan Drought Atlas (WSDA), a new paleoclimatic reconstruction of West African hydroclimate…

  • Placing the east-west North American aridity gradient in a multi-century context

    Open AccessDaniel A Bishop, Park Williams et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Instrumental records indicate a century-long trend towards drying over western North America and wetting over eastern North America. A continuation of these trends into the future would have significant hydroclimatic and socioeconomic consequences in both the semi-arid Southwest and humid East. Using tree-ring reconstructions and hydrologic simulations of summer soil moisture, we evaluate and contextualize the modern summer aridity gradient withi…

  • Dendroarchaeological analysis of the Terminal Warehouse in New York City reveals a history of long-distance timber transport during the Gilded Age

    Open AccessCaroline Leland, Mukund Palat Rao et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2021Referencias: 2

  • Snowpack signals in North American tree rings

    Open AccessBethany Coulthard, Bethany L Coulthard et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Climate change has contributed to recent declines in mountain snowpack and earlier runoff, which in turn have intensified hydrological droughts in western North America. Climate model projections suggest that continued and severe snowpack reductions are expected over the 21st century, with profound consequences for ecosystems and human welfare. Yet the current understanding of trends and variability in mountain snowpack is limited by the relative…

  • Harold Clark Fritts 1928–2019

    Steven W Leavitt, Edward R Cook et al.ARTICLETree-Ring Research2019

    Harold C. Fritts [known to many as "Hal"] passed away at his

  • Meteorological Factors Associated With Frost Rings in Rocky Mountain Bristlecone Pine at Mt. Goliath, Colorado

    Ana Carolina Maioli Campos Barbosa, Ana Carolina Barbosa et al.ARTICLETree-Ring Research2019

    The meteorological factors involved in the formation of earlywood frost rings in Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata) have not been described in detail. This study used 51 tree-ring dated Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine trees growing at ca. 3500 m a.s.l. on Mt. Goliath, Colorado, to develop earlywood and latewood frost ring chronologies dating from 1930 to 2010 for investigation of the regional and large-scale weather anomalies respon…

  • The potential to strengthen temperature reconstructions in ecoregions with limited tree line using a multispecies approach

    Open AccessM Ross Alexander, Jessie K Pearl et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2019

    Tree-ring reconstructions of temperature often target trees at altitudinal or latitudinal tree line where annual growth is broadly expected to be limited by and respond to temperature variability. Based on this principal, regions with sparse tree line would seem to be restricted in their potential to reconstruct past temperatures. In the northeastern United States, there are only two published temperature reconstructions. Previous work in the reg…

  • European warm-season temperature and hydroclimate since 850 CE

    Open AccessFredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Andrea Seim et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    The long-term relationship between temperature and hydroclimate has remained uncertain due to the short length of instrumental measurements and inconsistent results from climate model simulations. This lack of understanding is particularly critical with regard to projected drought and flood risks. Here we assess warm-season co-variability patterns between temperature and hydroclimate over Europe back to 850 CE using instrumental measurements, tre…

  • Improved dendroclimatic calibration using blue intensity in the southern Yukon

    Open AccessRob Wilson, Kevin J Anchukaitis et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2019Citada por: 1Referencias: 5

    In north-western North America, the so-called divergence problem (DP) is expressed in tree ring width (RW) as an unstable temperature signal in recent decades. Maximum latewood density (MXD), from the same region, shows minimal evidence of DP. While MXD is a superior proxy for summer temperatures, there are very few long MXD records from North America. Latewood blue intensity (LWB) measures similar wood properties as MXD, expresses a similar clim…

  • South American Dendroecological Fieldweek 2016

    Open AccessMariano M Amoroso, James H Speer et al.ARTICLETree-Ring Research2018

    The South American Dendroecological Fieldweek (SADEF) associated with the Third American Dendrochronology Conference was held in El Bolsón, Argentina, in March 2016. The main objective of the SADEF was to teach the basics of dendrochronology while applying specific knowledge to selected research questions. The course included participants and instructors from six different countries. This report describes activities of the course and briefly summ…

  • Keith R. Briffa

    Open AccessMalcolm K Hughes, Edward R Cook et al.ARTICLETree-Ring Research2018

    Keith was

  • Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition as an Alternative for Tree-Ring Chronology Development

    Open AccessBiing T Guan, William E Wright et al.ARTICLETree-Ring Research2018

    Since its establishment, tree-ring analysis has benefitted several scientific fields. Because of its many advantages, dendrochronology is a first choice to reconstruct past environmental variability. Two major concerns about the current tree-ring reconstruction paradigm are the subjective choices of detrending functions and the lack of fidelity to data of chronology generation methods. It is difficult to recover the original tree-ring data once t…

  • Lack of cool, not warm, extremes distinguishes late 20th Century climate in 979-year Tasmanian summer temperature reconstruction

    Open AccessKathryn Allen, Edward R Cook et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Very few annually resolved millennial-length temperature reconstructions exist for the Southern Hemisphere. Here we present four 979-year reconstructions for southeastern Australia for the austral summer months of December–February. Two of the reconstructions are based on the Australian Water Availability Project dataset and two on the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature dataset. For each climate data set, one reconstruction is based solely on Lag…

  • In Memoriam

    Open AccessTimothy J Osborn, P D Jones et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2018Referencias: 11

    Keith R Briffa was one of the most influential palaeoclimatologists of the last 30 years. His primary research interests lay in Late-Holocene climate change with a geographical emphasis on northern Eurasia. His greatest impact was in the field of dendroclimatology, a field that he helped to shape. His contributions have been seminal to the development of sound methods for tree-ring analysis and in their proper application to allow the interpretat…

  • Environmental Stress and Steppe Nomads

    Nicola Di Cosmo, Amy Hessl et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…2018Citada por: 2Referencias: 34

    Newly available paleoclimate data and a re-evaluation of the historical and archaeological evidence regarding the Uyghur Empire (744-840)-one of several nomadic empires to emerge on the Inner Asian steppe-suggests that the assumption of a direct causal link between drought and the stability of nomadic societies is not always justified. The fact that a severe drought lasting nearly seven decades did not cause the Uyghur Empire to collapse, to wage…

  • Potential for tree rings to reveal spatial patterns of past drought variability across western Australia

    Open AccessAlison J O’Donnell, Edward R Cook et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    Proxy records have provided major insights into the variability of past climates over long timescales. However, for much of the Southern Hemisphere, the ability to identify spatial patterns of past climatic variability is constrained by the sparse distribution of proxy records. This is particularly true for mainland Australia, where relatively few proxy records are located. Here, we (1) assess the potential to use existing proxy records in the Au…

  • Synchronous multi-decadal climate variability of the whole Pacific areas revealed in tree rings since 1567

    Open AccessKeyan Fang, Edward R Cook et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    Oceanic and atmospheric patterns play a crucial role in modulating climate variability from interannual to multi-decadal timescales by causing large-scale co-varying climate changes. The brevity of the existing instrumental records hinders the ability to recognize climate patterns before the industrial era, which can be alleviated using proxies. Unfortunately, proxy based reconstructions of oceanic and atmospheric modes of the past millennia ofte…

  • The Relationship Between Earlywood and Latewood Ring-Growth Across North America

    Max C A Torbenson, D W Stahle et al.ARTICLETree-Ring Research2016

    The relationship between earlywood width (EW) and latewood width (LW) is investigated using 197 tree-ring collections representing several tree species from across the North American continent. Chronologies of LW have limited paleoclimate value when they have low variance or very high correlation with EW from the same site. The correlation of LW and EW can be removed by taking the residuals from linear regression to provide a chronology of discre…

  • North American megadroughts in the Common Era

    Open AccessBenjamin I Cook, Edward R Cook et al.ARTICLEWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews…2016Citada por: 5Referencias: 5

    During the Medieval Climate Anomaly ( MCA ), Western North America experienced episodes of intense aridity that persisted for multiple decades or longer. These megadroughts are well documented in many proxy records, but the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. General circulation models ( GCMs ) simulate megadroughts, but do not reproduce the temporal clustering of events during the MCA , suggesting they are not caused by the time history of …

  • Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

    Open AccessEdward R Cook, Robin Seager et al.ARTICLEScience Advances2015

    An atlas of megadroughts in Europe and in the Mediterranean Basin during the Common Era provides insights into climate variability.

  • Early Days of Dendrochronology in the Hudson Valley of New York

    Edward R CookARTICLETree-Ring Research2014

    A brief and personal history of the development of dendrochronology in the Hudson Valley of New York in the 1970s and the quantitative reconstruction of climate from tree rings there is provided. Two people stand out in allowing that to happen. Marvin Stokes at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research sparked within me a deep and enduring interest in dendrochronology, and Daniel Smiley of Mohonk supported my interest in pursuing tree-ring research in…

  • Dendrochronological Dating of the World Trade Center Ship, Lower Manhattan, New York City

    Dario Martin-Benito, Darío Martin‐Benito et al.ARTICLETree-Ring Research2014

    On July 2010, archaeologists monitoring excavation at the World Trade Center site (WTC) in Lower Manhattan found the remains of a portion of a ship's hull. Because the date of construction and origin of the timbers were unknown, samples from different parts of the ship were taken for dendrochronological dating and provenancing. After developing a 280-year long floating chronology from 19 samples of the white oak group (Quercus section Leucobalanu…