Dendroclimatology: Progress and Prospects (Hardcover)

PART I: INTRODUCTORY SECTION 1. High-resolution paleoclimatology Raymond S. Bradley 2. Dendroclimatology in high-resolution paleoclimatology Malcolm K. Hughes PART II: SCIENTIFIC BASES OF DENDROCLIMATOLOGY 3. How well understood are the processes that create dendroclimatic records? A mechanistic model of the climatic control on conifer tree-ring growth dynamics Eugene A.Vaganov, Kevin J. Anchukaitis and Michael N. Evans 4. Uncertainty, emergence, and statistics in dendrochronology Edward R. Cook and Neil Pederson 5. A closer look at regional curve standardization of tree-ring records: justification of the need, a warning of some pitfalls, and suggested improvements in its application Keith R. Briffa and Thomas Melvin 6. Stable isotopes in dendroclimatology: moving beyond 'potential' Mary Gagen, Daniel McCarroll, Neil J. Loader and Iain Robertson. PART III: RECONSTRUCTION OF CLIMATE PATTERNS AND VALUES RELATIVE TO TODAY'S CLIMATE 7. Dendroclimatology from regional to continental scales: Understanding regional processes to reconstruct large-scale climatic variations across the Western Americas Ricardo Villalba, Brian H. Luckman, Jose Boninsegna, Rosanne D. D'Arrigo, Antonio Lara, Jose Villanueva-Diaz, M ariano Masiokas, J aime Argollo, C laudia Soliz, C arlos LeQuesne, David W. Stahle, F idel Roig, J uan Carlos Aravena, Malcolm K. Hughes, Gregory Wiles, Gordon Jacoby, Peter Hartsough, Robert J.S. Wilson, Emily Watson, Edward R. Cook, Julian Cerano-Paredes, Matthew Therrell, Malcolm Cleaveland, Mariano S. Morales, Nicholas E. Graham, Jorge Moya, Jeanette Pacajes, Guillermina Massacchesi, Franco Biondi, Rocio Urrutia, and Guillermo Martinez Pastur PART IV: APPLICATIONS OF DENDROCLIMATOLOGY 8. Application of streamflow reconstruction to water resources management David M. Meko and Connie A.Woodhouse 9. Climatic inferences from dendroecological reconstructions Thomas W. Swetnam and Peter M. Brown 10. North American tree-rings, climatic extremes, and social disasters David W. Stahle and Jeffrey S. Dean PART V: OVERVIEW 11. Tree rings and climate: Sharpening the focus Malcolm K. Hughes, Henry F. Diaz and Thomas W. Swetnam