2026 Connie A. Woodhouse: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	44	4598	4232	1754	1558	135	12493

Overview

Connie A. Woodhouse is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States and conducts research primarily in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work focuses on key areas such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Water Science and Technology.

Woodhouse's research addresses several main topics, including:

Hydrology and Drought Analysis
Tree-ring climate responses
Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Climate variability and models
Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Water resources management and optimization

The scientist has contributed regularly to various academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association
Water Resources Research
Geophysical Research Letters
Climate Services
International Journal of Climatology

Woodhouse has collaborated with several researchers across multiple publications. Notable frequent co-authors are:

David M. Meko
Gregory T. Pederson
Gregory J. McCabe
Stephanie A. McAfee
Edward R. Cook

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Woodhouse provide insight into the range of topics covered:

"Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction" (2020), published in Nature Climate Change
"Increased drought severity tracks warming in the United States' largest river basin" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Seven centuries of reconstructed Brahmaputra River discharge demonstrate underestimated high discharge and flood hazard frequency" (2020), published in Nature Communications
"Dynamics, Variability, and Change in Seasonal Precipitation Reconstructions for North America" (2020), published in Journal of Climate
"Tree Rings Reveal Unmatched 2nd Century Drought in the Colorado River Basin" (2022), published in Geophysical Research Letters

These publications collectively reflect a focus on drought analysis, river basin hydrology, climate variability, and long-term climate reconstructions using tree-ring data and other methodologies.

Best Publications

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

A. Park Williams;Craig D. Allen;Alison K. Macalady;Daniel Griffin

2102
Citations
Long-Term Aridity Changes in the Western United States

Edward R. Cook;Connie A. Woodhouse;C. Mark Eakin;David M. Meko

2002
Citations
2000 Years of Drought Variability in the Central United States

Connie A. Woodhouse;Connie A. Woodhouse;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Jonathan T. Overpeck

918
Citations
Megadroughts in North America: placing IPCC projections of hydroclimatic change in a long-term palaeoclimate context

Edward R. Cook;Richard Seager;Richard R. Heim;Russell S. Vose

592
Citations
Monitoring and Understanding Changes in Heat Waves, Cold Waves, Floods, and Droughts in the United States: State of Knowledge

Thomas C. Peterson;Richard R. Heim;Robert Hirsch;Dale P. Kaiser

527
Citations
Updated streamflow reconstructions for the Upper Colorado River Basin

Connie A. Woodhouse;Stephen T. Gray;David M. Meko

482
Citations
Medieval drought in the upper Colorado River Basin

David M. Meko;Connie A. Woodhouse;Christopher A. Baisan;Troy Knight

450
Citations
A 1,200-year perspective of 21st century drought in southwestern North America

Connie A. Woodhouse;David M. Meko;Glen M. MacDonald;Dave W. Stahle

442
Citations
The Unusual Nature of Recent Snowpack Declines in the North American Cordillera

Gregory T. Pederson;Gregory T. Pederson;Stephen T. Gray;Stephen T. Gray;Connie A. Woodhouse;Julio L. Betancourt

420
Citations
North American monsoon precipitation reconstructed from tree-ring latewood

Daniel Griffin;Connie A. Woodhouse;David M. Meko;David W. Stahle

193
Citations
Increasing influence of air temperature on upper Colorado River streamflow

Connie A. Woodhouse;Gregory T. Pederson;Kiyomi Morino;Stephanie A. McAfee

192
Citations
Multi-Century Tree-Ring Reconstructions of Colorado Streamflow for Water Resource Planning

Connie A. Woodhouse;Jeffrey J. Lukas

186
Citations
Climatic Controls on the Snowmelt Hydrology of the Northern Rocky Mountains

Gregory T. Pederson;Gregory T. Pederson;Stephen T. Gray;Toby Ault;Wendy Marsh

171
Citations
A Tree-Ring Reconstruction of Streamflow for the Colorado Front Range

Connie A. Woodhouse

170
Citations
Five centuries of Upper Indus River flow from tree rings

Edward R. Cook;Jonathan G. Palmer;Moinuddin Ahmed;Connie A. Woodhouse

166
Citations
A 431-Yr Reconstruction of Western Colorado Snowpack from Tree Rings

Connie A. Woodhouse

146
Citations
Latewood chronology development for summer-moisture reconstruction in the US Southwest

Daniel Griffin;David M. Meko;Ramzi Touchan;Steven W. Leavitt

140
Citations
The Continuum of Hydroclimate Variability in Western North America during the Last Millennium

Toby R. Ault;Julia E. Cole;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Gregory T. Pederson

140
Citations
Increased drought severity tracks warming in the United States’ largest river basin

Justin T. Martin;Gregory T. Pederson;Connie A. Woodhouse;Edward R. Cook

121
Citations
Tree-ring footprint of joint hydrologic drought in Sacramento and Upper Colorado river basins, western USA

David M. Meko;Connie A. Woodhouse

112
Citations
Seven centuries of reconstructed Brahmaputra River discharge demonstrate underestimated high discharge and flood hazard frequency.

Mukund Palat Rao;Mukund Palat Rao;Edward R. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook;Rosanne Dorothy D’Arrigo

112
Citations
Drought 2002 in Colorado: An unprecedented drought or a routine drought?

Roger A. Pielke;Nolan Doesken;Odilia Bliss;Tara Green

110
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Meko University of Arizona

Edward R. Cook Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Gregory J. McCabe United States Geological Survey

Steven W. Leavitt University of Arizona

Benjamin I. Cook Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Jonathan T. Overpeck University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Upmanu Lall Columbia University

Thomas W. Swetnam University of Arizona

David W. Stahle University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

María Uriarte Columbia University

External Links

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