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Overview

Rob Wilson is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom and has an extensive publication record in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional contributions to Nature and Landscape Conservation, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Environmental Engineering.

Their work encompasses key topics such as tree-ring climate responses, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, geology and paleoclimatology research, climate variability and models, forest ecology and management, cryospheric studies and observations, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Recent papers authored by Rob Wilson include:

  • The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions, 2021, Nature Communications
  • The unidentified eruption of 1809: a climatic cold case, 2021, Climate of the Past
  • Recent human-induced atmospheric drying across Europe unprecedented in the last 400 years, 2023, Nature Geoscience
  • Accelerated Recent Warming and Temperature Variability Over the Past Eight Centuries in the Central Asian Altai From Blue Intensity in Tree Rings, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Delta blue intensity vs. maximum density: A case study using Pinus uncinata in the Pyrenees, 2020, Dendrochronologia

Wilson frequently publishes in several venues, including:

  • Dendrochronologia
  • Climate of the Past
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Biogeosciences

Collaborations have been notable with co-authors such as Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Kristina Seftigen, Jan Esper, Brendan M. Buckley, and Edward R. Cook, reflecting a steady engagement with researchers active in similar scientific domains.

The scope of Wilson's publications over their career reflects sustained engagement with methodologies and empirical data aimed at understanding climatic processes and their historical and contemporary impacts on the environment through proxy indicators like tree rings.

Best Publications

  • On the 'Divergence Problem' in Northern Forests: A review of the tree-ring evidence and possible causes

    Rosanne D'Arrigo;Rob Wilson;Rob Wilson;Beate Liepert;Paolo Cherubini;Paolo Cherubini

  • Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

    Edward R. Cook;Richard Seager;Yochanan Kushnir;Keith R. Briffa

  • On the long‐term context for late twentieth century warming

    Rosanne D'Arrigo;Rob Wilson;Gordon Jacoby

  • Last millennium Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part I: the long term context

    Rob Wilson;Rob Wilson;Kevin Anchukaitis;Kevin Anchukaitis;Keith R. Briffa;Ulf Büntgen

  • Site- and species-specific responses of forest growth to climate across the European continent

    Flurin Babst;Benjamin Poulter;Valerie Trouet;Kun Tan

  • Orbital forcing of tree-ring data

    Jan Esper;David C. Frank;Mauri Timonen;Eduardo Zorita

  • On the variability of ENSO over the past six centuries

    Rosanne D'Arrigo;Edward R. Cook;Rob J. Wilson;Rob Allan

  • Monthly, seasonal and annual temperature reconstructions for Central Europe derived from documentary evidence and instrumental records since AD 1500

    Petr Dobrovolný;Anders Moberg;Rudolf Brázdil;Christian Pfister

  • Last millennium Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part II, spatially resolved reconstructions

    Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Rob Wilson;Rob Wilson;Keith R. Briffa;Ulf Büntgen;Ulf Büntgen

  • Effect of scaling and regression on reconstructed temperature amplitude for the past millennium

    Jan Esper;David C. Frank;Robert J. S. Wilson;Keith R. Briffa

  • Summer temperatures in the Canadian Rockies during the last millennium: a revised record

    B. H. Luckman;R. J. S. Wilson

  • Revising midlatitude summer temperatures back to A.D. 600 based on a wood density network

    Lea Schneider;Jason E. Smerdon;Ulf Büntgen;Rob J. S. Wilson;Rob J. S. Wilson

  • A matter of divergence: Tracking recent warming at hemispheric scales using tree ring data

    R. Wilson;R. Wilson;Rosanne Dorothy D'Arrigo;Brendan M. Buckley;U. Buntgen

  • Reconstructing ENSO: the influence of method, proxy data, climate forcing and teleconnections

    Robert Wilson;Robert Wilson;Edward Cook;Rosanne D'Arrigo;Nadja Riedwyl

  • Testing for tree-ring divergence in the European Alps

    Ulf Büntgen;David Frank;Rob Wilson;Marco Carrer

  • Dendroclimatic reconstruction of maximum summer temperatures from upper treeline sites in Interior British Columbia, Canada

    R. J. S. Wilson;B. H. Luckman

  • On the Asian expression of the PDO

    Rosanne D'Arrigo;Rob Wilson

  • Tree rings and volcanic cooling

    Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Petra Breitenmoser;Keith R. Briffa;Agata Buchwal

  • Temperature-sensitive Tien Shan tree ring chronologies show multi-centennial growth trends

    J. Esper;S. G. Shiyatov;V. S. Mazepa;R. J. S. Wilson

  • Temporal instability in tree-growth/climate response in the Lower Bavarian Forest region: implications for dendroclimatic reconstruction

    Rob Wilson;Wolfram Elling

  • A Matter Of Divergence: Tracking Recent Warming At Hemispheric Scales Using Tree-Ring Data

    R. J. Wilson;R. D'Arrigo;B. Buckley;U. Buentgen

Frequent Co-Authors

Rosanne D'Arrigo
Rosanne D'Arrigo Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
David Frank
David Frank University of Arizona
Nicole Davi
Nicole Davi Columbia University
Kevin J. Anchukaitis
Kevin J. Anchukaitis University of Arizona
Jan Esper
Jan Esper Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Ulf Büntgen
Ulf Büntgen University of Cambridge
Edward R. Cook
Edward R. Cook Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Paul J. Krusic
Paul J. Krusic University of Cambridge
Brian H. Luckman
Brian H. Luckman University of Western Ontario
Gordon C. Jacoby
Gordon C. Jacoby Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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