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Dendroclimatology in the Eastern Mediterranean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2016

Ramzi Touchan,
David M. Meko and
Kevin J. Anchukaitis
Ramzi Touchan*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, The University of Arizona, 1215 E. Lowell St., Bldg. 45B, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
David M. Meko
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, The University of Arizona, 1215 E. Lowell St., Bldg. 45B, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
Kevin J. Anchukaitis
Affiliation:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Geology and Geophysics, 121A Clark Laboratory, 266 Woods Hole Rd. MS #23, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
*
∗ Corresponding author: rtouchan@ltrr.arizona.edu.
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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 advances in EM dendroclimatology. The network, now consisting of 79 sites, has been widely applied in large-scale climatic reconstruction and in helping to identify drivers of climatic variation on regional to global spatial scales. This article reviews EM dendroclimatology and highlights contributions on the national and international scale.

Keywords

dendroclimatologyEastern Mediterraneantree-ring growthreconstructiondrought

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Radiocarbon , Volume 56 , Issue 4 , 2014, pp. S61 - S68
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Copyright © 2014 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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