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61
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2755
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David W. Stahle publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David W. Stahle sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 158 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

David W. Stahle D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David W. Stahle sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

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

  • Drought Reconstructions for the Continental United States

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

  • North American drought: Reconstructions, causes, and consequences

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

  • 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

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

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

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

    David W. Stahle;Malcolm K. Cleaveland

  • 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

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

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

  • Major Mesoamerican droughts of the past millennium

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

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

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

  • 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

  • Megadrought and megadeath in 16th century Mexico.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Management implications of annual growth rings in Pterocarpus angolensis from Zimbabwe

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

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

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

  • Multi-century evaluation of Sierra Nevada snowpack

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

  • North American monsoon precipitation reconstructed from tree-ring latewood

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

  • Cool- and Warm-Season Precipitation Reconstructions over Western New Mexico

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

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

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

  • North American megadroughts in the Common Era: reconstructions and simulations

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

  • Texas drought history reconstructed and analyzed from 1698 to 1980

    David W. Stahle;Malcolm K. Cleaveland

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward R. Cook
Edward R. Cook Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Ricardo Villalba
Ricardo Villalba National Scientific and Technical Research Council
David M. Meko
David M. Meko University of Arizona
Benjamin I. Cook
Benjamin I. Cook Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Song Feng
Song Feng University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Connie A. Woodhouse
Connie A. Woodhouse University of Arizona
Jochen Schöngart
Jochen Schöngart National Institute of Amazonian Research
Brian H. Luckman
Brian H. Luckman University of Western Ontario
Richard Seager
Richard Seager Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Valerie Trouet
Valerie Trouet University of Arizona

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