Kevin Anchukaitis
Assistant Scientist
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Department of Geology and Geophysics
266 Woods Hole Rd. MS #23
Woods Hole, MA 02543

http://www.whoi.edu/kja



Submitted

PAGES 2k Consortium, Continental-scale temperature variability over the Common Era, in review, 2012.

Bell, A.E., 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, in revision, Global Environmental Change, 2012.

2012

Tierney, J.E., J.E. Smerdon, K.J. Anchukaitis, R. Seager, Multidecadal variability in East African hydroclimate controlled by the Indian Ocean, in press, 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.J. Krusic, B. Luckman, T.M. Melvin, M.W. Salzer, A.V. Shashkin, C. Timmreck, E.A. Vaganov, R.J.S. Wilson, Tree rings and volcanic cooling, in press, Nature Geoscience, 2012.

Beck, P.S.A., L. Andreu-Hayles, R.D. D'Arrigo, K.J. Anchukaitis, C.J. Tucker, J.E. Pinzon, S.J. Goetz, A large-scale coherent signal of temperature and canopy status in maximum latewood density of tree rings at Arctic treeline in North America, in press, Global and Planetary Change, doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.10.005, 2012.

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., in revision, Climate Dynamics, 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. [MATLAB code]

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.

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, doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1458-1, 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, 39, L16706, doi:10.1029/2012GL052565, 2012. [Earth Institute] [UPI] [io9] [CBC] [Huffington Post] [Discover Magazine] [Summit County Voice] [MSNBC] [Christian Science Monitor] [Smithsonian]

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, doi:10.1177/0959683612455548, 2012.

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, in press, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00139.1, 2012.

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]

2011

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]

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, 2011.

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.

2010

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]

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.
[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, Code, FAQ] [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]

2009

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. [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.

2008

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.


2007

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.


2006

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.


2005

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.