2026 David W. Stahle: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	61	2752	2628	1098	1018	158	14949

Research.com Recognitions

2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

David W. Stahle is affiliated with the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to the understanding of global and planetary change as well as atmospheric science.

Their work spans several subfields, including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, and plant science. Core topics of research involve tree-ring climate responses, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, climate variability and models, geology and paleoclimatology research, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, hydrology and sediment transport processes, and hydrology and drought analysis.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by David W. Stahle include:

"Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene" (2022), published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
"Dynamics, Variability, and Change in Seasonal Precipitation Reconstructions for North America" (2020), published in Journal of Climate
"Ranking of tree-ring based hydroclimate reconstructions of the past millennium" (2020), published in Quaternary Science Reviews
"Anthropogenic megadrought" (2020), published in Science
"Multidecadal Changes in Wet Season Precipitation Totals Over the Eastern Amazon" (2020), published in Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

Ian M. Howard
Max C. A. Torbenson
Benjamin I. Cook
José Villanueva-Díaz
Edward R. Cook

Among the main publication venues for David W. Stahle are:

Journal of Climate
Geophysical Research Letters
Environmental Research Letters
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

David W. Stahle was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2015.

Best Publications

Long-Term Aridity Changes in the Western United States

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

2002
Citations
Drought Reconstructions for the Continental United States

Edward R. Cook;David M. Meko;David W. Stahle;Malcolm K. Cleaveland

1460
Citations
North American drought: Reconstructions, causes, and consequences

Edward R. Cook;Richard Seager;Mark A. Cane;David W. Stahle

1004
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
Tree-ring data document 16th century megadrought over North America

David W. Stahle;Edward R. Cook;Malcolm K. Cleaveland;Matthew D. Therrell

390
Citations
Reconstruction and Analysis of Spring Rainfall over the Southeastern U.S. for the Past 1000 Years

David W. Stahle;Malcolm K. Cleaveland

354
Citations
The Lost Colony and Jamestown Droughts

David W. Stahle;Malcolm K. Cleaveland;Malcolm K. Cleaveland;Dennis B. Blanton;Dennis B. Blanton;Matthew D. Therrell;Matthew D. Therrell

330
Citations
Tree-Ring Reconstructed Winter Precipitation and Tropical Teleconnections in Durango, Mexico

Malcolm K. Cleaveland;David W. Stahle;Matthew D. Therrell;José Villanueva-Diaz

280
Citations
Major Mesoamerican droughts of the past millennium

D. W. Stahle;J. Villanueva Diaz;D. J. Burnette;J. Cerano Paredes

279
Citations
Tree-ring reconstructed megadroughts over North America since a.d. 1300

David W. Stahle;Falko K. Fye;Edward R. Cook;R. Daniel Griffin

276
Citations
The Mexican Drought Atlas: Tree-Ring Reconstructions of the Soil Moisture Balance During the Late Pre-Hispanic, Colonial, and Modern Eras

David W. Stahle;Edward R. Cook;Dorian J. Burnette;Jose Villanueva

273
Citations
Megadrought and megadeath in 16th century Mexico.

Rodolfo Acuna-Soto;David W. Stahle;Malcolm K. Cleaveland;Matthew D. Therrell

255
Citations
Mexican drought: an observational modeling and tree ring study of variability and climate change

Richard Seager;Mingfang Ting;M. Davis;Mark A. Cane

252
Citations
Paleoclimatic Analogs to Twentieth-Century Moisture Regimes Across the United States

Falko K. Fye;David W. Stahle;Edward R. Cook

241
Citations
Management implications of annual growth rings in Pterocarpus angolensis from Zimbabwe

D.W Stahle;P.T Mushove;M.K Cleaveland;F Roig

238
Citations
North Carolina climate changes reconstructed from tree rings: a.d. 372 to 1985.

D. W. Stahle;M. K. Cleaveland;J. G. Hehr

219
Citations
Multi-century evaluation of Sierra Nevada snowpack

Soumaya Belmecheri;Flurin Babst;Eugene R. Wahl;David W. Stahle

203
Citations
North American monsoon precipitation reconstructed from tree-ring latewood

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

193
Citations
Cool- and Warm-Season Precipitation Reconstructions over Western New Mexico

David W. Stahle;M. K. Cleaveland;H. D. Grissino-Mayer;R. D. Griffin

193
Citations
Spatial Patterns of Tree-Growth Anomalies in the United States and Southeastern Canada

David Meko;Edward R. Cook;David W. Stahle;Charles W. Stockton

188
Citations
North American megadroughts in the Common Era: reconstructions and simulations

Benjamin I. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook;Edward R. Cook;Jason E. Smerdon;Richard Seager

187
Citations
Texas drought history reconstructed and analyzed from 1698 to 1980

David W. Stahle;Malcolm K. Cleaveland

185
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward R. Cook Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Ricardo Villalba National Scientific and Technical Research Council

David M. Meko University of Arizona

Benjamin I. Cook Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Song Feng University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

Connie A. Woodhouse University of Arizona

Jochen Schöngart National Institute of Amazonian Research

Brian H. Luckman University of Western Ontario

Richard Seager Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Valerie Trouet University of Arizona

External Links

Personal website of David W. Stahle

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