List of works - Benjamin I. Cook

20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia

scientific article published on 10 February 2019

A Homogeneous Record (1896–2006) of Daily Weather and Climate at Mohonk Lake, New York*

article

A Robust Null Hypothesis for the Potential Causes of Megadrought in Western North America

A double bootstrap approach to Superposed Epoch Analysis to evaluate response uncertainty

article by Mukund P. Rao et al published June 2019 in Dendrochronologia

A multi-millennial palaeoclimatic resource from Lagarostrobos colensoi tree-rings at Oroko Swamp, New Zealand

article

A quantitative hydroclimatic context for the European Great Famine of 1315–1317

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

A reconstruction of global hydroclimate and dynamical variables over the Common Era.

scientific article

Amplification of the North American "Dust Bowl" drought through human-induced land degradation

scholarly article

Assessing the evolving fragility of the global food system

Atmospheric circulation influences on seasonal precipitation patterns in Alaska during the latter 20th century

scientific article

Blue Water Trade-Offs With Vegetation in a CO2 -Enriched Climate

scholarly article

CMIP6 Historical Simulations (1850–2014) With GISS‐E2.1

Causes of interannual to decadal variability of Gila River streamflow over the past century

article by M.A. Pascolini-Campbell et al published March 2015 in Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies

Climate Change Amplification of Natural Drought Variability: The Historic Mid-Twentieth-Century North American Drought in a Warmer World

scientific article

Climate Change and Drought: From Past to Future

scholarly article by Benjamin I. Cook et al published 12 May 2018 in Current climate change reports

Climate and the Global Famine of 1876–78

scholarly article by Deepti Singh et al published December 2018 in Journal of Climate

Climate change reshapes the drivers of false spring risk across European trees

scientific article published on 07 August 2020

Climate variation, reproductive frequency and acorn yield in English Oaks

scientific article published on 15 November 2018

Climates of Warm Earth-like Planets. III. Fractional Habitability from a Water Cycle Perspective

scientific article

Clouds and temperature drive dynamic changes in tropical flower production

article published in 2013

Cold Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures During the Late Sixteenth-Century North American Megadrought

Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era

Competing influences of anthropogenic warming, ENSO, and plant physiology on future terrestrial aridity

article

Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012-2014

article

Coupled Modes of North Atlantic Ocean-Atmosphere Variability and the Onset of the Little Ice Age

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

Covariability of climate and streamflow in the Upper Rio Grande from interannual to interdecadal timescales

scientific article

Critical impact of vegetation physiology on the continental hydrologic cycle in response to increasing CO2.

scientific article published on 2 April 2018

Disentangling the Regional Climate Impacts of Competing Vegetation Responses to Elevated Atmospheric CO 2

scientific article

Distinct Influences of Land Cover and Land Management on Seasonal Climate

scientific article published on 10 November 2018

Divergent Regional Climate Consequences of Maintaining Current Irrigation Rates in the 21st Century

scientific article

Divergent responses to spring and winter warming drive community level flowering trends

scientific article

Diversity buffers winegrowing regions from climate change losses

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Drought variability in the eastern Australia and New Zealand summer drought atlas (ANZDA, CE 1500–2012) modulated by the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation

article

Dust-rainfall feedbacks in the West African Sahel

Dynamics and Variability of the Spring Dry Season in the United States Southwest as Observed in AmeriFlux and NLDAS-2 Data

scientific article

Dynamics, Variability, and Change in Seasonal Precipitation Reconstructions for North America

Ecological forecasting under climatic data uncertainty: a case study in phenological modeling

article

Effect of irrigation on humid heat extremes

scientific article published on 22 June 2020

European and Mediterranean hydroclimate responses to tropical volcanic forcing over the last millennium.

scientific article

Exacerbation of the 2013-2016 Pan-Caribbean Drought by Anthropogenic Warming

article

Flowering date of taxonomic families predicts phenological sensitivity to temperature: Implications for forecasting the effects of climate change on unstudied taxa

scientific article

Forced and unforced variability of twentieth century North American droughts and pluvials

Future Climate Change under SSP Emission Scenarios with GISS‐E2.1

scientific article published on 9 March 2022

GISS-E2.1: Configurations and Climatology

scientific article published on 11 August 2020

Herbarium records provide reliable phenology estimates in the understudied tropics

scientific article published on 16 December 2022

How do climate change experiments alter plot-scale climate?

scientific article published on 27 January 2019

Increasing prevalence of hot drought across western North America since the 16th century

Influence of volcanic eruptions on the climate of the Asian monsoon region

article

Influences of the El Niño Southern Oscillation and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on the timing of the North American spring

scholarly article

Internal ocean-atmosphere variability drives megadroughts in Western North America.

scientific article

Investigating the causes of increased 20th-century fall precipitation over the southeastern United States

scientific article published on 28 December 2018

Irrigation as an historical climate forcing

Land-atmosphere feedbacks exacerbate concurrent soil drought and atmospheric aridity

scientific article published on 03 September 2019

Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Megadroughts in Southwestern North America in ECHO-G Millennial Simulations and Their Comparison to Proxy Drought Reconstructions*

Mid-latitude freshwater availability reduced by projected vegetation responses to climate change

Model, proxy and isotopic perspectives on the East African Humid Period

article

North American megadroughts in the Common Era: reconstructions and simulations

scholarly article by Benjamin I. Cook et al published 29 March 2016 in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: WIREs Climate Change

Objective determination of monsoon season onset, withdrawal, and length

scientific article published in 2009

Observed and Projected Changes to the Precipitation Annual Cycle

Oceanic and radiative forcing of medieval megadroughts in the American Southwest

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Pacific Ocean Forcing and Atmospheric Variability Are the Dominant Causes of Spatially Widespread Droughts in the Contiguous United States

scientific article

Paleoclimate histories improve access and sustainability in index insurance programs

Past and future drought in Mongolia

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Phenological versus meteorological controls on land-atmosphere water and carbon fluxes

scholarly article

Phylogenetic conservatism in plant phenology

article

Pre-Columbian deforestation as an amplifier of drought in Mesoamerica

scholarly article

Precipitation, Temperature, and Teleconnection Signals across the Combined North American, Monsoon Asia, and Old World Drought Atlases

article

Predicting phenology by integrating ecology, evolution and climate science

Progress towards an interdisciplinary science of plant phenology: building predictions across space, time and species diversity

scientific article

Projected Changes to Hydroclimate Seasonality in the Continental United States

scientific article

Relative impacts of mitigation, temperature, and precipitation on 21st-century megadrought risk in the American Southwest

scientific article

Reply to Comment on ‘Drought variability in the eastern Australia and New Zealand summer drought atlas (ANZDA, CE 1500–2012) modulated by the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation’

article

Repurposing climate reconstructions for drought prediction in Southeast Asia

article

Rethinking false spring risk

scientific article published on 06 May 2019

Revisiting the Leading Drivers of Pacific Coastal Drought Variability in the Contiguous United States

Seasonality of biological and physical systems as indicators of climatic variation and change

scientific article

Sensitivity of Spring Phenology to Warming Across Temporal and Spatial Climate Gradients in Two Independent Databases

article

Seven centuries of reconstructed Brahmaputra River discharge demonstrate underestimated high discharge and flood hazard frequency

scientific article published on 26 November 2020

Six Centuries of Upper Indus Basin Streamflow Variability and Its Climatic Drivers

scientific article published on 03 August 2018

Snow cover and precipitation impacts on dry season streamflow in the Lower Mekong Basin

scholarly article

Soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands

scientific article

Spatiotemporal drought variability in the Mediterranean over the last 900 years.

scientific article

Statistical simulation of the influence of the NAO on European winter surface temperatures: Applications to phenological modeling

article

Temperature-dependent shifts in phenology contribute to the success of exotic species with climate change

scientific article

Temporal ecology in the Anthropocene

scientific article

The 2016 southeastern US drought: an extreme departure from centennial wetting and cooling

scientific article published on 04 October 2017

The Curious Case of Projected Twenty-First-Century Drying but Greening in the American West

scientific article published on 03 October 2017

The European Russia Drought Atlas (1400–2016 CE)

scientific article

The Mexican Drought Atlas: Tree-ring reconstructions of the soil moisture balance during the late pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern eras

scholarly article

The North Atlantic Oscillation and regional phenology prediction over Europe

scientific article

The Sensitivity of Land-Atmosphere Coupling to Modern Agriculture in the Northern Midlatitudes

scientific article published on 26 December 2018

The legacy of episodic climatic events in shaping temperate, broadleaf forests

scientific article published in 2014

The paleoclimate context and future trajectory of extreme summer hydroclimate in eastern Australia.

scientific article published on 31 October 2016

The plant phenology monitoring design for The National Ecological Observatory Network

article

The worst North American drought year of the last millennium: 1934

article by Benjamin I. Cook et al published 18 October 2014 in Geophysical Research Letters

Tree Rings and Observations Suggest No Stable Cycles in Sierra Nevada Cool‐Season Precipitation

scientific article

Tree‐Ring Reconstruction of the Atmospheric Ridging Feature That Causes Flash Drought in the Central United States Since 1500

scientific article

Twentieth-century hydroclimate changes consistent with human influence

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Twenty‐First Century Drought Projections in the CMIP6 Forcing Scenarios

scientific article

U.S. Pacific Coastal Droughts Are Predominantly Driven by Internal Atmospheric Variability

scientific article

Uncertainties, Limits, and Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation for Soil Moisture Drought in Southwestern North America

scientific article published in 2021

Unprecedented 21st century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains

scientific article

Unprecedented Drought Challenges for Texas Water Resources in a Changing Climate: What Do Researchers and Stakeholders Need to Know?

scientific article

Urbanization causes increased cloud base height and decreased fog in coastal Southern California

article

Using palaeo-climate comparisons to constrain future projections in CMIP5

Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change

scientific article published on 2 May 2012

Western Pacific hydroclimate linked to global climate variability over the past two millennia

scientific article

List of works by Benjamin I. Cook

20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia

A Homogeneous Record (1896–2006) of Daily Weather and Climate at Mohonk Lake, New York*

A Robust Null Hypothesis for the Potential Causes of Megadrought in Western North America

A double bootstrap approach to Superposed Epoch Analysis to evaluate response uncertainty

A multi-millennial palaeoclimatic resource from Lagarostrobos colensoi tree-rings at Oroko Swamp, New Zealand

A quantitative hydroclimatic context for the European Great Famine of 1315–1317

A reconstruction of global hydroclimate and dynamical variables over the Common Era.

Amplification of the North American "Dust Bowl" drought through human-induced land degradation

Assessing the evolving fragility of the global food system

Atmospheric circulation influences on seasonal precipitation patterns in Alaska during the latter 20th century

Blue Water Trade-Offs With Vegetation in a CO2 -Enriched Climate

CMIP6 Historical Simulations (1850–2014) With GISS‐E2.1

Causes of interannual to decadal variability of Gila River streamflow over the past century

Climate Change Amplification of Natural Drought Variability: The Historic Mid-Twentieth-Century North American Drought in a Warmer World

Climate Change and Drought: From Past to Future

Climate and the Global Famine of 1876–78

Climate change reshapes the drivers of false spring risk across European trees

Climate variation, reproductive frequency and acorn yield in English Oaks

Climates of Warm Earth-like Planets. III. Fractional Habitability from a Water Cycle Perspective

Clouds and temperature drive dynamic changes in tropical flower production

Cold Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures During the Late Sixteenth-Century North American Megadrought

Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era

Competing influences of anthropogenic warming, ENSO, and plant physiology on future terrestrial aridity

Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012-2014

Coupled Modes of North Atlantic Ocean-Atmosphere Variability and the Onset of the Little Ice Age

Covariability of climate and streamflow in the Upper Rio Grande from interannual to interdecadal timescales

Critical impact of vegetation physiology on the continental hydrologic cycle in response to increasing CO2.

Disentangling the Regional Climate Impacts of Competing Vegetation Responses to Elevated Atmospheric CO 2

Distinct Influences of Land Cover and Land Management on Seasonal Climate

Divergent Regional Climate Consequences of Maintaining Current Irrigation Rates in the 21st Century

Divergent responses to spring and winter warming drive community level flowering trends

Diversity buffers winegrowing regions from climate change losses

Drought variability in the eastern Australia and New Zealand summer drought atlas (ANZDA, CE 1500–2012) modulated by the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation

Dust-rainfall feedbacks in the West African Sahel

Dynamics and Variability of the Spring Dry Season in the United States Southwest as Observed in AmeriFlux and NLDAS-2 Data

Dynamics, Variability, and Change in Seasonal Precipitation Reconstructions for North America

Ecological forecasting under climatic data uncertainty: a case study in phenological modeling

Effect of irrigation on humid heat extremes

European and Mediterranean hydroclimate responses to tropical volcanic forcing over the last millennium.

Exacerbation of the 2013-2016 Pan-Caribbean Drought by Anthropogenic Warming

Flowering date of taxonomic families predicts phenological sensitivity to temperature: Implications for forecasting the effects of climate change on unstudied taxa

Forced and unforced variability of twentieth century North American droughts and pluvials

Future Climate Change under SSP Emission Scenarios with GISS‐E2.1

GISS-E2.1: Configurations and Climatology

Herbarium records provide reliable phenology estimates in the understudied tropics

How do climate change experiments alter plot-scale climate?

Increasing prevalence of hot drought across western North America since the 16th century

Influence of volcanic eruptions on the climate of the Asian monsoon region

Influences of the El Niño Southern Oscillation and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on the timing of the North American spring

Internal ocean-atmosphere variability drives megadroughts in Western North America.

Investigating the causes of increased 20th-century fall precipitation over the southeastern United States

Irrigation as an historical climate forcing

Land-atmosphere feedbacks exacerbate concurrent soil drought and atmospheric aridity

Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought

Megadroughts in Southwestern North America in ECHO-G Millennial Simulations and Their Comparison to Proxy Drought Reconstructions*

Mid-latitude freshwater availability reduced by projected vegetation responses to climate change

Model, proxy and isotopic perspectives on the East African Humid Period

North American megadroughts in the Common Era: reconstructions and simulations

Objective determination of monsoon season onset, withdrawal, and length

Observed and Projected Changes to the Precipitation Annual Cycle

Oceanic and radiative forcing of medieval megadroughts in the American Southwest

Pacific Ocean Forcing and Atmospheric Variability Are the Dominant Causes of Spatially Widespread Droughts in the Contiguous United States

Paleoclimate histories improve access and sustainability in index insurance programs

Past and future drought in Mongolia

Phenological versus meteorological controls on land-atmosphere water and carbon fluxes

Phylogenetic conservatism in plant phenology

Pre-Columbian deforestation as an amplifier of drought in Mesoamerica

Precipitation, Temperature, and Teleconnection Signals across the Combined North American, Monsoon Asia, and Old World Drought Atlases

Predicting phenology by integrating ecology, evolution and climate science

Progress towards an interdisciplinary science of plant phenology: building predictions across space, time and species diversity

Projected Changes to Hydroclimate Seasonality in the Continental United States

Relative impacts of mitigation, temperature, and precipitation on 21st-century megadrought risk in the American Southwest

Reply to Comment on ‘Drought variability in the eastern Australia and New Zealand summer drought atlas (ANZDA, CE 1500–2012) modulated by the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation’

Repurposing climate reconstructions for drought prediction in Southeast Asia

Rethinking false spring risk

Revisiting the Leading Drivers of Pacific Coastal Drought Variability in the Contiguous United States

Seasonality of biological and physical systems as indicators of climatic variation and change

Sensitivity of Spring Phenology to Warming Across Temporal and Spatial Climate Gradients in Two Independent Databases

Seven centuries of reconstructed Brahmaputra River discharge demonstrate underestimated high discharge and flood hazard frequency