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Valerie Trouet is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with focused work in several subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Plant Science.

The topics addressed in Trouet's research include:

  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Forest ecology and management

The recent papers authored or co-authored by Trouet reflect their involvement in diverse climate and environmental studies. Key publications include:

  • "Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions" (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • "ENSO modulates wildfire activity in China" (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • "Recent anthropogenic curtailing of Yellow River runoff and sediment load is unprecedented over the past 500 y" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability" (2022), published in Nature Geoscience

Trouet frequently publishes in several journals and venues, including:

  • Nature Communications
  • Dendrochronologia
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Environmental Research Letters

Collaborations have involved multiple frequent co-authors, among them:

  • Guobao Xu
  • Achim Bräuning
  • Jan Esper
  • Ulf Büntgen
  • Grant L. Harley

In addition to journal articles, Valerie Trouet has also contributed to book publications, including the title "Tree Story," published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2020.

Best Publications

  • 2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility

    Ulf Büntgen;Ulf Büntgen;Willy Tegel;Kurt Nicolussi;Michael McCormick

  • Persistent Positive North Atlantic Oscillation Mode Dominated the Medieval Climate Anomaly

    Valérie Trouet;Jan Esper;Nicholas E. Graham;Andy Baker

  • Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

    Moinuddin Ahmed;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Asfawossen Asrat;Hemant P. Borgaonkar

  • Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

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

  • KNMI Climate Explorer: A Web-Based Research Tool for High-Resolution Paleoclimatology

    Valerie Trouet;Geert Jan Van Oldenborgh

  • Twentieth century redistribution in climatic drivers of global tree growth.

    Flurin Babst;Flurin Babst;Olivier Bouriaud;Benjamin Poulter;Valerie Trouet

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

    Flurin Babst;Benjamin Poulter;Valerie Trouet;Kun Tan

  • Ensemble reconstruction constraints on the global carbon cycle sensitivity to climate

    David C. Frank;Jan Esper;Christoph C. Raible;Christoph C. Raible;Ulf Büntgen

  • North Atlantic storminess and Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during the last Millennium: Reconciling contradictory proxy records of NAO variability

    V. Trouet;J.D. Scourse;C.C. Raible;C.C. Raible

  • Socioecological transitions trigger fire regime shifts and modulate fire–climate interactions in the Sierra Nevada, USA, 1600–2015 CE

    Alan H. Taylor;Valerie Trouet;Carl N. Skinner;Scott Stephens

  • Species-specific climate sensitivity of tree growth in Central-West Germany

    Dagmar A. Friedrichs;Valerie Trouet;Ulf Büntgen;David C. Frank

  • Observed forest sensitivity to climate implies large changes in 21st century North American forest growth.

    Noah D. Charney;Flurin Babst;Flurin Babst;Benjamin Poulter;Sydne Record

  • Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years

    Bao Yang;Chun Qin;Achim Bräuning;Timothy J. Osborn

  • When tree rings go global: Challenges and opportunities for retro- and prospective insight

    Flurin Babst;Flurin Babst;Paul Bodesheim;Noah Charney;Andrew D. Friend

  • Multi-century evaluation of Sierra Nevada snowpack

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

  • A tree-ring perspective on the terrestrial carbon cycle

    Flurin Babst;M. Ross Alexander;Paul Szejner;Olivier Bouriaud

  • A composite annual-resolution stalagmite record of North Atlantic climate over the last three millennia.

    Andy Baker;John C. Hellstrom;Bryce F. J. Kelly;Gregoire Mariethoz

  • Climatic signals in tree rings of Burkea africana and Pterocarpus angolensis from semiarid forests in Namibia

    Esther Fichtler;Valerie Trouet;Hans Beeckman;Pol Coppin

  • Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability

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  • Tree-ring indicators of German summer drought over the last millennium

    Ulf Büntgen;Valerie Trouet;David Frank;Hanns Hubert Leuschner

  • Multi-century Evaluation of Sierra Nevada Snowpack

    S. Belmecheri;V. Trouet;F. Babst;E. R. Wahl

Frequent Co-Authors

Flurin Babst
Flurin Babst University of Arizona
David Frank
David Frank University of Arizona
Jan Esper
Jan Esper Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Ulf Büntgen
Ulf Büntgen University of Cambridge
Hans Beeckman
Hans Beeckman Royal Museum for Central Africa
David J. P. Moore
David J. P. Moore University of Arizona
Paul J. Krusic
Paul J. Krusic University of Cambridge
Alan H. Taylor
Alan H. Taylor Pennsylvania State University
Edward R. Cook
Edward R. Cook Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Rob Wilson
Rob Wilson University of St Andrews

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