David M Meko

Biographic Data

ID5598789
NAMEDavid M Meko
GIVEN NAMESDavid M
FAMILY NAMEMeko
SIGNATUREMEKO D M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Arizona
ORCID0000-0002-5171-2724
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS46
WORKS AS AUTHOR27
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX3

  • Precipitation Reconstruction Using Tree-Ring Chronologies from Jordan and the Eastern Mediterranean Region

    John C Risley, John Risley et al.ARTICLETree-Ring Research2024

    An international summer course in dendrochronology, “Tree Rings, Climate, Natural Resources, and Human Interaction”, was held in Amman, Jordan, in summer 2023. Drs. Ramzi Touchan and David M. Meko from the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research were course instructors. The course, with 10 students from Jordan, Algeria, Tunisia, Pakistan, Greece, and the USA, included training in core-sample collection, sample preparation, crossdat…

  • In Memoriam Charles Wayne Stockton 1938–2023

    David M Meko, Paul R SheppardARTICLETree-Ring Research2024

  • Analysis of the Climate Signal in Subannual Width Measurements of Pinus nigra Tree Rings in Kastamonu Province, Turkey

    Mehvish Majeed, Emanuel Stoica et al.ARTICLETree-Ring Research2023

    Black pine (Pinus nigra) is a widely distributed tree species across southern Europe and Asia Minor. This article summarizes a dendroclimatological study of subannual P. nigra ring width conducted during an international summer course “Tree Rings, Climate, Natural Resources, and Human Interaction” in 2022. Increment cores were collected from 15 young (oldest 105 years) P. nigra trees in the Araç Forest District in Kastamonu Province, Turkey. Site…

  • PDSI Reconstruction from Tree Rings in Central Siberia (Russia)

    Wojciech Kędziora, R Tomusiak et al.ARTICLETree-Ring Research2022

    This report describes an international summer course, “Tree Rings, Climate, Natural Resources, and Human Interaction”, held in Cheriomushki, Russia, in the summer of 2018. The course was attended by 12 participants from six countries (Belgium, India, Lebanon, Poland, Russia, and South Africa) and instructors from the USA and included basic training in dendrochronology skills and dendroclimatology and dendroecology projects. This report focuses on…

  • Oceanic Influence on Chiricahua Mountains Drought Observed in a 383-Year Douglas-Fir Reconstruction

    Jose Abella-Gutiérrez, J L Abella-Gutiérrez et al.ARTICLETree-Ring Research2021

    Drought in the North American Southwest is a recurring phenomenon. The knowledge of drought recurrence and severity is crucial for sustainable water resource management in the region. Tree-ring reconstructions of climate variables provide valuable indirect evidence of climate variability and elucidate the relationship between large-scale circulation anomalies and the climate in the region. Here we have developed a May–July Palmer Drought Severity…

  • Unprecedented acceleration of winter discharge of Upper Yenisei River inferred from tree rings

    Open AccessIrina P Panyushkina, David M Meko et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    The Yenisei River is the largest contributor of freshwater and energy fluxes among all rivers draining to the Arctic Ocean. Modeling long-term variability of Eurasian runoff to the Arctic Ocean is complicated by the considerable variability of river discharge in time and space, and the monitoring constraints imposed by a sparse gauged-flow network and paucity of satellite data. We quantify tree growth response to river discharge at the upper reac…

  • A multi-century Sierra Nevada snowpack reconstruction modeled using upper-elevation coniferous tree rings (California, USA)

    Open AccessKai Lepley, Ramzi Touchan et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2020Cited by: 1References: 1

    Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains accounts for around one-third of California’s water supply. Melting snow provides water into dry summer months characteristic of the region’s Mediterranean climate. As climate changes, understanding patterns of snowpack, snowmelt, and biological response is critical in this region of agricultural, recreational, and ecological value. Here we investigated the relationships between tree rings of montane conife…

  • Impact of high flows of an Arctic river on ring widths of floodplain trees

    Open AccessDavid M Meko, Irina P Panyushkina et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2020

    The tree-ring signal for flooding along the Ob River, a large Arctic River in western Siberia, is investigated using a combination of floodplain tree-ring sites from riparian and non-riparian settings. A conceptual model is presented contrasting tree-growth responses of riparian and non-riparian trees to unusually severe flooding. A set of five riparian ( Salix and Populus) tree-ring chronologies is developed and used in combination with existing…

  • Two Reconstructions of August–july Precipitation for Central Northern Arizona From Tree Rings

    Tamara Fletcher, Ramzi Touchan et al.ARTICLETree-Ring Research2019

    This study reports two multi-century regional reconstructions of annual precipitation based on Pinus ponderosa and P. edulis from four sites in central northern Arizona. It compares standard regional and time-nested methods to generate reconstructions from 1581–2016 C.E. and 1529–2016 C.E., respectively. The strongest climate relationship is a positive correlation between total ring width and 12-month total precipitation ending in July of the gro…

  • Tree growth and vegetation activity at the ecosystem-scale in the eastern Mediterranean

    Open AccessBethany Coulthard, Bethany L Coulthard et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    Linking annual tree growth with remotely-sensed terrestrial vegetation indices provides a basis for using tree rings as proxies for ecosystem primary productivity over large spatial and long temporal scales. In contrast with most previous tree ring/remote sensing studies that have focused on temperature-limited boreal and taiga environments, here we compare the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) with a network of Pinus brutia tree ring…

  • Climate controls on tree growth in the Western Mediterranean

    Open AccessRamzi Touchan, Kevin J Anchukaitis et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2017References: 4

    The first large-scale network of tree-ring chronologies from the western Mediterranean (WM; 32°N–43°N, 10°W–17°E) is described and analyzed to identify the seasonal climatic signal in indices of annual ring width. Correlation and rotated empirical orthogonal function analyses are applied to 85 tree-ring series and corresponding gridded climate data to assess the climate signal embedded in the network. Chronologies range in length from 80 to 1129 …

  • Elevation-layered dendroclimatic signal in eastern Mediterranean tree rings

    Open AccessRamzi Touchan, Vladimir V Shishov et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    Networks of tree-ring data are commonly applied in statistical reconstruction of spatial fields of climate variables. The importance of elevation to the climatic interpretation of tree-ring networks is addressed using 281 station precipitation records, and a network of 79 tree-ring chronologies from different species and a range of elevations in the eastern Mediterranean. Cluster analysis of chronologies identifies 6 tree-ring groups, delineated …

  • August to July Precipitation from Tree Rings in the Forest-Steppe Zone of Central Siberia (Russia)

    Santosh K Shah, Ramzi Touchan et al.ARTICLETree-Ring Research2015

    The goal of this research report is to describe annual precipitation reconstruction from Pinus sylvestris trees on three sites in the Abakan region, located in the Minusinsk Depression, at the confluence of the Yenisei and Abakan Rivers, Russia. The study was performed during the 4th annual international summer course “Tree Rings, Climate, Natural Resources and Human Interaction” held in Abakan, 5-19 August 2013. The reconstruction, for the 12-mo…

  • Tree-ring reconstructed hydroclimate of the upper Klamath basin

    Open AccessSteven B Malevich, Connie A Woodhouse et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2015

  • Alternative standardization approaches to improving streamflow reconstructions with ring-width indices of riparian trees

    Open AccessDavid M Meko, Jonathan M Friedman et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2015References: 2

    Old, multi-aged populations of riparian trees provide an opportunity to improve reconstructions of streamflow. Here, ring widths of 394 plains cottonwood ( Populus deltoides, ssp. monilifera) trees in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota, are used to reconstruct streamflow along the Little Missouri River (LMR), North Dakota, US. Different versions of the cottonwood chronology are developed by (1) age-curve standardizat…

  • Spatial patterns of eastern Mediterranean climate influence on tree growth

    Open AccessRamzi Touchan, Kevin J Anchukaitis et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2014Cited by: 3

    The first large-scale network of 79 tree-ring chronologies in the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East (EMNE; 33°N–42°N, 21°E–43°E) is described and analyzed to identify the seasonal climatic signal in indices of annual ring width. Correlation analysis and cluster analysis are applied to tree-ring data and gridded climate data to assess the climate signal embedded in the network in preparation for climate field reconstructions and formal proxy/mod…

  • Dendroclimatology in the Eastern Mediterranean

    Open AccessRamzi Touchan, David M Meko et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2014References: 30

    Dendroclimatology in the Eastern Mediterranean (EM) region has made important contributions to the understanding of climate variability on timescales of decades to centuries. These contributions, beginning in the mid-20th century, have value for resource management, archaeology, and climatology. A gradually expanding tree-ring network developed by the first author over the past 15 years has been the framework for some of the most important recent…

  • Dendrochronology Course In Valsaín Forest, Segovia, Spain

    Ramzi Touchan, David M Meko et al.ARTICLETree-Ring Research2013

    This report describes an international summer course, “Tree Rings, Climate, Natural Resources, and Human Interaction”, held in Valsaín, Spain, in summer of 2012. The course, with 14 participants from three countries (Spain, Algeria, and Russia), included basic training in dendrochronology skills as well as applied projects in dendroclimatology, dendroecology and dendrogeomorphology.

  • Monsoon precipitation reconstructed from tree rings in the southwestern United States

    Open AccessDaniel Griffin, Connie A Woodhouse et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2013

  • Latewood Chronology Development for Summer-Moisture Reconstruction In the US Southwest

    Daniel Griffin, David M Meko et al.ARTICLETree-Ring Research2011

    Tree-ring studies have demonstrated that conifer latewood measurements contain information on long-term North American monsoon (NAM) variability, a hydroclimatic feature of great importance to plants, animals, and human society in the US Southwest. This paper explores data-treatment options for developing latewood chronologies aimed at NAM reconstruction. Archived wood samples for five Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii, Mirb. Franco) sites in so…

  • Inferring precipitation-anomaly gradients from tree rings

    Open AccessDavid M Meko, David W Stahle et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2011

  • A Bimillennial-Length Tree-Ring Reconstruction of Precipitation for the Tavaputs Plateau, Northeastern Utah

    Open AccessTroy A Knight, David M Meko et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2010

    Despite the extensive network of moisture-sensitive tree-ring chronologies in western North America, relatively few are long enough to document climatic variability before and during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) ca. AD 800-1300. We developed a 2300-yr tree-ring chronology extending to 323 BC utilizing live and remnant Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii ) from the Tavaputs Plateau in northeastern Utah. A resulting regression model accounts …

  • The North American monsoon in the U.S. Southwest

    Open AccessSteven W Leavitt, Connie A Woodhouse et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2010

  • The seasonality of precipitation signals embedded within the North American Drought Atlas

    Open AccessScott St George, David M Meko et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2010Cited by: 3References: 1

    We examine how the seasonality of precipitation signals embedded within the North American Drought Atlas varies across the continent. Instrumental records of average summer (JJA) Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) are characterized by major regional differences in the relative importance of precipitation during summer and winter (DJF). The Atlas, which is based on a network of drought-sensitive tree-ring records, is able to reproduce the main g…

  • Regional tree growth and inferred summer climate in the Winnipeg River basin, Canada, since AD 1783

    Open AccessScott St George, David M Meko et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2008

    A network of 54 ring-width chronologies is used to estimate changes in summer climate within the Winnipeg River basin, Canada, since AD 1783. The basin drains parts of northwestern Ontario, northern Minnesota and southeastern Manitoba, and is a key area for hydroelectric power production. Most chronologies were developed from Pinus resinosa and P. strobus , with a limited number of Thuja occidentalis , Picea glauca and Pinus banksiana . The domin…