Publications

Journal Article
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.
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.
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.
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.
R. Touchan, Funkhouser, G., Hughes, M. K., and Erkan, N., “Standardized precipitation index reconstructed from Turkish tree-ring widths”, Climatic Change, vol. 72, pp. 339-353, 2005.
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.
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.
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.
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 and Hughes, M. K., “The role of dendrochronology in natural resource management”, USDA Forest Service Proceedings, vol. RMRS-P-13, pp. 277-281, 2000.
R. Touchan, Xoplaki, E., Funkhouser, G., Luterbacher, J., Hughes, M. K., Erkan, N., Akkemik, Ü., and Stephan, J., “Reconstructions of spring/summer precipitation for the Eastern Mediterranean from tree-ring widths and its connection to large-scale atmospheric circulation”, Climate Dynamics, vol. 25, pp. 75-98, 2005.
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.
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.
R. Touchan, Garfin, G. M., Meko, D., Funkhouser, G., Erkan, N., Hughes, M. K., and Wallin, B. S., “Preliminary reconstructions of spring precipitation in southwestern Turkey from tree-ring width”, International Journal of Climatology, vol. 23, pp. 157-171, 2003.
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.
R. Touchan, Meko, D., and Aloui, A., “Precipitation reconstruction for Northwestern Tunisia from tree rings”, Journal of Arid Environments, vol. 72, pp. 1887 – 1896, 2008.
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.
R. Touchan, Akkemik, Ü., Hughes, M. K., and Erkan, N., “May–June precipitation reconstruction of southwestern Anatolia, Turkey during the last 900 years from tree rings”, Quaternary Research, vol. 68, pp. 196-202, 2007.
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., Meko, D. M., Attalah, S., Baisan, C., and Aloui, A., “The long term context for recent drought in northwestern Africa, ”, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 35, p. L13705, 2008.
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.
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, 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., 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.
R. Touchan, Meko, D., and Anchukaitis, K. J., “Dendroclimatology in the eastern Mediterranean”, Journal of Radiocarbon, vol. 56, pp. 61-68, 2014.

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