Publications

2019
W. Kedziora, Touchan, R., Meko, D., Szyc, K., Wojtan, R., Bijak, S., and Tomusiak, R., “The 2019 International Summer School “Tree Rings, Climate, Natural Resources, and Human Interactions,” Warsaw, Poland”, Dendrochronologia, vol. 58, p. 125631, 2019.
D. Kherchouche, Slimani, S., Touchan, R., Touati, D., Malki, H., and Baisan, C. H., “Fire human-climate interaction in Atlas cedar forests of Aurès, Northern Algeria”, Dendrochronologia, vol. 55, pp. 125 - 134, 2019.
T. Fletcher, Touchan, R., Lepley, K., Rouini, N., Bloye, R., Tremarelli, T. S., Peña, K., and Meko, D. M., “TWO RECONSTRUCTIONS OF AUGUST–JULY PRECIPITATION FOR CENTRAL NORTHERN ARIZONA FROM TREE RINGS”, Tree-Ring Research, vol. 75, no. 2, p. 116, 2019.
C. J. Eastoe, Tucek, C. S., and Touchan, R., “Δ 14 C AND δ 13 C IN ANNUAL TREE-RING SAMPLES FROM SEQUOIADENDRON GIGANTEUM , AD 998–1510: SOLAR CYCLES AND CLIMATE ABSTRACT”, Radiocarbon, pp. 1 - 20, 2019.
2018
T. V. Kostyakova, Touchan, R., Babushkina, E. A., and Belokopytova, L. V., “Precipitation reconstruction for the Khakassia region, Siberia, from tree rings”, The Holocene, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 377 - 385, 2018.
2017
R. Touchan, Anchukaitis, K. J., Meko, D. M., Kerchouche, D., Slimani, S., Ilmen, R., Hasnaoui, F., Guibal, F., Camarero, J. Julio, Sánchez-Salguero, R., Piermattei, A., Sesbou, A., Cook, B. I., Sabir, M., and Touchane, H., “Climate controls on tree growth in the Western Mediterranean”, The Holocene, vol. 27, no. 10, pp. 1429 - 1442, 2017.
Z. Choury, Shestakova, T. A., Himrane, H., Touchan, R., Kherchouche, D., J. Camarero, J., and Voltas, J., “Quarantining the Sahara desert: growth and water-use efficiency of Aleppo pine in the Algerian Green Barrier”, European Journal of Forest Research, vol. 136, no. 1, pp. 139 - 152, 2017.
B. L. Coulthard, Touchan, R., Anchukaitis, K. J., Meko, D. M., and Sivrikaya, F., “Tree growth and vegetation activity at the ecosystem-scale in the eastern Mediterranean”, Environmental Research Letters, vol. 12, no. 8, p. 084008, 2017.
2016
R. Touchan, Kherchouche, D., Oudjehih, B., Touchane, H., Slimani, S., and Meko, D. M., “Dendroclimatology and Wheat Production in Algeria”, Journal of Arid Environment, vol. 124, pp. 102-110, 2016.
R. Touchan, Shishov, V. V., I, I., Tychkov, I. I., Sivrikaya, F., Attieh, J., Ketmen, M., Stephan, J., Mitsopoulos, I., Christou, A., and Meko, D. M., “Elevation-Layered Dendroclimatic Signal in Eastern Mediterranean Tree Rings”, Environmental Research Letters, vol. 11, 2016.
B. I. Cook, Anchukaitis, K. J., Touchan, R., Meko, D. M., and Cook, E. R., “Spatiotemporal drought variability in the Mediterranean over the last 900 years”, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, vol. 121, 2016.
2015
S. K. Shah, Touchan, R., Babushkina, E., Shishov, V. V., and Meko, D. M., “August-July precipitation from tree rings in forest-steppe zone of central Siberia (Russia)”, Tree Ring Research, vol. 71, pp. 37–44, 2015.
E. R. Cook, Seager, Y., Kushnir, K. R., Briffa, U., Büntgen, D., Frank, P., Krusic, J., Tegel, W., Van der Schrier, G., Andreu-Hayles, L., Baillie, M., Baittinger, C., Billamboz, A., Bleicher, N., Bonde, N., Brown, D., Carrer, M., Cooper, R., Čufar, K., Dittmar, C., Esper, J., Griggs, C., Gunnarson, B., Günther, B., Gutierrez, E., Helama, S., Herzig, F., Heussner, K. - U. Karl- Uwe, Hofman, J., Janda, P., Kontic, R., Köse, N., Kyncl, T., Kristof, H., Levanič, T., Linderholm, H., Manning, S., Melvin, T. M., Neuwirth, B., Nicolussi, K., Siem, A., Svarva, H., Svoboda, M., Thun, T., Touchan, R., Trotsiuk, V., Trouet, V., Wazny, T., Wilson, R., and Zang, C., “Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era”, Advancement of Science, 2015.
2014
R. Touchan, Meko, D., and Anchukaitis, K. J., “Dendroclimatology in the eastern Mediterranean”, Journal of Radiocarbon, vol. 56, pp. 61-68, 2014.
S. Slimani, Touchan, R., Derridj, A., Kherchouche, D., and Gutierrez, E., “Fire history of Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica Manetti) in Mount Chélia, northern Algeria”, Journal of Arid Environments, vol. 104, pp. 116-124, 2014.
R. Touchan, Christou, A., and Meko, D., “May-July precipitation reconstruction in Cyprus, 1415-2010, from tree rings”, Journal of Climate Dynamics, vol. 43, pp. 3281-3292, 2014.
R. Touchan, Anchukaitis, K. J., Shishov, V. V., Sivrikaya, F., Attieh, J., Ketmen, M., Stephan, J., Mitsopoulos, I. D., Christou, A., and Meko, D., “Spatial patterns of eastern Mediterranean climate influence on tree growth”, Holocene, vol. 24, pp. 381-392, 2014.
2013
R. Touchan, Meko, D. M., Ballesteros-Cánovas, J. A., Sánchez-Salguero, R., J. Camarero, J., Kerchouche, D., Muntan, E., Khabcheche, M., Blanco, J. A., Morata, C. Rodriguez, Garófano-Gómez, V., Martín, L. A., Alfaro-Sánchez, R., Garah, K., Hevia, A., Madrigal-González, J., Sánchez-Miranda, Á., Shestakova, T. A., and Tabakova, M., “Dendrochronology course in Valsaín forest, Segovia, Spain”, Tree-Ring Research, vol. 69, pp. 93-100, 2013.
I. I. Heinrich, Touchan, R., Liñán, I. D., Vos, H., and Helle, G., “Winter-to-spring temperature dynamics in Turkey derived from tree rings since AD 1125”, Journal of Climate Dynamics, vol. 41, pp. 1685–1701, 2013.
2012
R. Touchan, Baisan, C., Mitsopoulos, I. D., and Dimitrakopoulos, A. P., “Fire history in European black pine (Pinus nigra Arn.) forests of the Valia Kalda, Pindus mountains, Greece”, Tree-Ring Research, vol. 68, pp. 45-50, 2012.
R. Touchan, Shishov, V. V., Meko, D., Nouiri, I., and Grachev, A., “Process based model sheds light on climate sensitivity of Mediterranean tree-ring width”, Biogeosceinces, vol. 9, pp. 965-972, 2012.
2011
D. Meko, Touchan, R., and Anchukaitis, K. J., “Seascorr: A MATLAB program for identifying the seasonal climate signal in an annual tree-ring time series”, Computers & Geosciences, vol. 37, pp. 1234-1241, 2011.
R. Touchan, Anchukaitis, K. J., Meko, D., Sabir, M., Attalah, S., and Aloui, A., “Spatiotemporal drought variability in northwestern Africa over the last nine centuries”, Journal of Climate Dynamics, vol. 37, pp. 237–252, 2011.
2009
R. Touchan and Hughes, M. K., “Dendroclimatology in the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean Region”, in Tree-rings, Kings, and Old World Archaeology and Environment, S. W. Manning and Bruce, M. Jaye, Eds. 2009, pp. 65-70.
R. Touchan and Meko, D., “Role of dendroclimatology in water sustainability in semi-arid regions”, Hydrology and Water Resources in Arizona and the Southwest, vol. 39. Hydrology Section, Arizona–Nevada Academy of Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, pp. 41-44, 2009.

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