Tree-Ring Monsoon Workshop for Water Managers November 11, 2011. Hosted by the Salt River Project

Workshop Agenda (77kb .pdf)

Presentation 1: Introduction (4.7mb PDF)

Presentation 2: Reconstruction Methods (4.4mb PDF)

Presentation 3: Reconstruction Analysis (3.2mb PDF)

New article:

Latewood chronology development for summer moisture reconstruction in the U.S. Southwest. Griffin, D., Meko, D.M., Touchan, R., Leavitt, S.W., and C.A. Woodhouse. 2011.Tree-Ring Research 67:87-101.

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New article:

The North American Monsoon in the U.S. Southwest: Potential for investigation with tree-ring carbon isotopes. in press. Leavitt, S.W., Woodhouse, C.A., Castro, C.L., Wright, W.E., Meko, D.M., Touchan, R., Griffin, D., and B. Ciancarelli. Quaternary International 235, 101-107 doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2010.05.006.

Reprint available upon request.

Poster from meeting: Sustainability on the Border: Water, Climate, and Social Change in a Fragile Landscape. UT El Paso, 16 May 2011.

Historical evaluation of dynamically downscaled global climate model products for the warm season in Norht America. Carrillo, C., Ching, H.-I., Castro, C.L., and B. Ciancarelli.

Poster from Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union 2010.

A tree-ring reconstruction of monsoon precipitation for the southwestern United States. Griffin, D., Woodhouse, C.A., Meko, D.M., Touchan, R., Leavitt, S.W., and c.L. Castro.

Poster from WorldDendro 2010: The 8th International conference on dendrochronology.

Treerings and North American monsoon variability in the southwestern United States (1.5mb). Griffin, D., Castro, C.L., Ciancarelli, B., Leavitt, S.W., Meko, D.M., Touchan, R., and C.A. Woodhouse.

Project summary for stakeholders:
"Tree Rings and the Monsoon in the Southwestern U.S."

in the 2010 CLIMAS Border Climate Summary (3.3 mb)

Poster from Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, December 2009

"Tree rings and monsoon season rainfall variability in the Southwestern US: Strategies for sensitive chronology development." (1.5mb) Griffin, D., D. M. Meko, R. Touchan, C. A. Woodhouse, S. W. Leavitt, and Christopher L., 2009.

Poster from 5th Symposium on Southwest Hydrometeorology, Sep. 30- Oct. 1, 2009, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

"Use of Tree Ring and Long Term Precipitation Records to Characterize Warm Season Climate Variability in the Southwest U.S." (2.6mb) Ciancarelli, B.L., C.L. Castro, C.A. Woodhouse, D.M. Meko, R. Touchan, S.W. Leavitt, and D. Griffin, 2009.

Project Overview.pdf