January 2012

Earlywood and latewood: new insight on the tree growth-climate response in the U.S. Southwest with emphasis on the summer monsoon.

Earlywood and latewood tree-ring chronologies offer promise for reconstructing season- specific, and in some cases, dual-season climate variability. This was our motivation for developing a new network of 50 intra-annual chronologies for the southwestern U.S., where annual precipitation is split between the westerly influenced winter and summer monsoon climate regimes.