David M. Meko

14.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
124 papers, 10.8k citations indexed

About

David M. Meko is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, David M. Meko has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 10.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 114 papers in Atmospheric Science, 111 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 15 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in David M. Meko's work include Tree-ring climate responses (112 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (98 papers) and Climate variability and models (40 papers). David M. Meko is often cited by papers focused on Tree-ring climate responses (112 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (98 papers) and Climate variability and models (40 papers). David M. Meko collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Algeria. David M. Meko's co-authors include Edward R. Cook, Connie A. Woodhouse, David W. Stahle, Ramzi Touchan, Malcolm K. Cleaveland, Charles W. Stockton, C. Mark Eakin, Donald A. Graybill, Daniel Griffin and Kevin J. Anchukaitis and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

David M. Meko

119 papers receiving 10.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality

2012 1.5k citations Daniel Griffin, David M. Meko et al. profile →
Long-Term Aridity Changes in the Western United States

2004 1.3k citations David M. Meko, David W. Stahle et al. profile →
Drought Reconstructions for the Continental United States*

1999 954 citations David M. Meko, David W. Stahle et al. profile →
The 'segment length curse' in long tree-ring chronology development for palaeoclimatic studies

1995 556 citations David M. Meko et al. profile →
Spatiotemporal drought variability in the Mediterranean over the last 900 years

2016 303 citations Benjamin I. Cook, Kevin J. Anchukaitis et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David M. Meko United States	45	8.8k	8.1k	1.8k	1.2k	972	124	10.8k
Connie A. Woodhouse United States	39	6.3k 0.7×	5.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	99	8.1k
Kevin J. Anchukaitis United States	48	7.1k 0.8×	6.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	948 0.8×	719 0.7×	151	9.8k
Ricardo Villalba Argentina	53	5.7k 0.6×	6.7k 0.8×	2.3k 1.3×	1.3k 1.1×	439 0.5×	232	9.1k
Jason E. Smerdon United States	45	7.0k 0.8×	5.1k 0.6×	781 0.4×	980 0.8×	1.3k 1.3×	141	9.5k
Tao Wang China	48	5.0k 0.6×	2.9k 0.4×	947 0.5×	2.1k 1.7×	1.2k 1.3×	171	8.3k
Gerhard Krinner France	49	5.2k 0.6×	7.5k 0.9×	441 0.2×	1.7k 1.3×	616 0.6×	141	10.5k
Achim Bräuning Germany	48	5.1k 0.6×	5.5k 0.7×	2.4k 1.3×	646 0.5×	228 0.2×	235	7.0k
Martín de Luis Spain	53	5.4k 0.6×	3.8k 0.5×	2.6k 1.4×	1.1k 0.9×	614 0.6×	143	6.9k
Neil Pederson United States	47	5.0k 0.6×	4.2k 0.5×	2.8k 1.5×	824 0.7×	249 0.3×	127	6.4k
J. M. Welker United States	57	3.3k 0.4×	6.6k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	4.3k 3.5×	1.3k 1.4×	240	11.9k

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Wang, Shijie, Mao Hu, Feng Chen, et al.. (2025). Recent south-central Andes water crisis driven by Antarctic amplification is unprecedented over the last eight centuries. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 1 indexed citations

Prusevich, Alexander, David M. Meko, Irina P. Panyushkina, et al.. (2025). TRISH: Tree-ring integrated system for hydrology, a web-based tool for reconstruction. Environmental Modelling & Software. 192. 106590–106590.

Vennemann, Torsten, et al.. (2025). Elevation-dependent breakpoint in climate forcing of tree growth in the Turtmann River Basin, Switzerland. Dendrochronologia. 91. 126322–126322.

Anchukaitis, Kevin J., Ramzi Touchan, David M. Meko, et al.. (2024). Enhancing spatiotemporal paleoclimate reconstructions of hydroclimate across the Mediterranean over the last millennium. Climate Dynamics. 62(6). 5351–5371. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Feng, Tao Wang, Xiaoen Zhao, et al.. (2024). Coupled Pacific Rim megadroughts contributed to the fall of the Ming Dynasty’s capital in 1644 CE. Science Bulletin. 69(19). 3106–3114. 36 indexed citations

Chen, Feng, Shijie Wang, Qianjin Dong, et al.. (2024). Role of Pacific Ocean climate in regulating runoff in the source areas of water transfer projects on the Pacific Rim. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 22 indexed citations

Risley, John C., et al.. (2024). Precipitation Reconstruction Using Tree-Ring Chronologies from Jordan and the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Tree-Ring Research. 80(2). 1 indexed citations

Biondi, Franco, David M. Meko, & Gianluca Piovesan. (2023). Maximum tree lifespans derived from public-domain dendrochronological data. iScience. 26(3). 106138–106138. 6 indexed citations

Chen, Feng, Wenmin Man, Shijie Wang, et al.. (2023). Southeast Asian ecological dependency on Tibetan Plateau streamflow over the last millennium. Nature Geoscience. 16(12). 1151–1158. 70 indexed citations

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Meko, David M., et al.. (2023). Species Sensitivity to Hydrologic Whiplash in The Tree-Ring Record of the High Sierra Nevada. Environments. 10(1). 12–12. 2 indexed citations

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Ávalos, Juan Estrada, et al.. (2022). Historic Variability of the Water Inflow to the Lazaro Cardenas Dam and Water Allocation in the Irrigation District 017, Comarca Lagunera, Mexico. Forests. 13(12). 2057–2057. 4 indexed citations

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Panyushkina, Irina P., et al.. (2022). Douglas Fir Multiproxy Tree-Ring Data Glimpse MIS 5 Environment in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Forests. 13(12). 2161–2161. 1 indexed citations

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Biondi, Franco & David M. Meko. (2019). Long‐Term Hydroclimatic Patterns in the Truckee‐Carson Basin of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, USA. Water Resources Research. 55(7). 5559–5574. 17 indexed citations

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Chen, Feng, Huaming Shang, Irina P. Panyushkina, et al.. (2019). Tree-ring reconstruction of Lhasa River streamflow reveals 472 years of hydrologic change on southern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Hydrology. 572. 169–178. 42 indexed citations

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Wahl, Eugene R., et al.. (2012). Reconstructing Precipitation from Temperature and Drought-Index Reconstructions in Western North America. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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Touchan, Ramzi, et al.. (2012). Process based model sheds light on climate sensitivity of Mediterranean tree-ring width. Biogeosciences. 9(3). 965–972. 61 indexed citations

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Stahle, David W., Daniel Griffin, Malcolm K. Cleaveland, et al.. (2011). A Tree-Ring Reconstruction of the Salinity Gradient in the Northern Estuary of San Francisco Bay. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science. 9(1). 11 indexed citations

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Touchan, Ramzi, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, & David M. Meko. (2010). Drought History from tree rings in the Mediterranean Region. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2010. 1 indexed citations

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Meko, David M., et al.. (2009). A Bimillennial-Length Tree-Ring Reconstruction of Precipitation for the Tavaputs Plateau, Northeastern Utah. Quaternary Research. 73(1). 107–117. 43 indexed citations

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Jacobs, Keith W., David M. Meko, Bart Nijssen, & Bonnie G. Colby. (2005). Enhancing Water Supply Reliability Through Improved Predictive Capacity and Response. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 1 indexed citations

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