Benjamin L Cook

Adjunct Research Scientist, Biology and Paleo Environment, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia Climate School
Affiliated with: M.S. in Sustainability Management School of Professional Studies
P.O. Box 1000 61 Route 9W Palisades, NY 10964-1000 USA

PROJECTS

Only select projects listed below

Name	Start Date	End Date
Collaborative Research: P2C2-Past and Future Drought Variability in the Mediterranean Basin	6/1/11	5/31/13
Collaborative Research: Past and Future Drought Variability in the Mediterranean Basin	1/1/13	5/31/14

65 PUBLICATIONS ON COLUMBIA | ACADEMIC COMMONS

Only select publications listed below

Name	Published Date
Approaching a thermal tipping point in the Eurasian boreal forest at its southern margin	2023
Growing impact of wildfire on western US water supply	2022
Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene	2022
Modeling demographic-driven vegetation dynamics and ecosystem biogeochemical cycling in NASA GISS's Earth system model (ModelE-BiomeE v.1.0)	2022
Changing hydroclimate dynamics and the 19th to 20th century wetting trend in the English Channel region of northwest Europe	2021
Dendroarchaeological analysis of the Terminal Warehouse in New York City reveals a history of long-distance timber transport during the Gilded Age	2021
Disentangling the Regional Climate Impacts of Competing Vegetation Responses to Elevated Atmospheric CO2	2021
Placing the east-west North American aridity gradient in a multi-century context	2021
Projected Changes to Hydroclimate Seasonality in the Continental United States	2021
Uncertainties, Limits, and Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation for Soil Moisture Drought in Southwestern North America	2021
U.S. Pacific Coastal Droughts Are Predominantly Driven by Internal Atmospheric Variability	2021
A quantitative hydroclimatic context for the European Great Famine of 1315-17	2020
Divergent Regional Climate Consequences of Maintaining Current Irrigation Rates in the 21st Century	2020
Seven centuries of reconstructed Brahmaputra River discharge demonstrate underestimated high discharge and flood hazard frequency	2020
Twenty-First Century Drought Projections in the CMIP6 Forcing Scenarios	2020
A double bootstrap approach to Superposed Epoch Analysis to evaluate response uncertainty	2019
Dynamics and Variability of the Spring Dry Season in the United States Southwest as Observed in AmeriFlux and NLDAS-2 Data	2019
Investigating the Causes of Increased Twentieth-Century Fall Precipitation over the Southeastern United States	2019
Oceanic and radiative forcing of medieval megadroughts in the American southwest	2019
Blue Water Trade-Offs With Vegetation in a CO2-Enriched Climate	2018
Climate and the Global Famine of 1876-78	2018
Critical impact of vegetation physiology on the continental hydrologic cycle in response to increasing CO2	2018
Past and future drought in Mongolia	2018
Revisiting the Leading Drivers of Pacific Coastal Drought Variability in the Contiguous United States	2018
Six Centuries of Upper Indus Basin Streamflow Variability and Its Climatic Drivers	2018
Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era	2017
Covariability of climate and streamflow in the Upper Rio Grande from interannual to interdecadal timescales	2017
European and Mediterranean hydroclimate responses to tropical volcanic forcing over the last millennium	2017
Precipitation, Temperature, and Teleconnection Signals across the Combined North American, Monsoon Asia, and Old World Drought Atlases	2017
The 2016 Southeastern U.S. Drought: An Extreme Departure From Centennial Wetting and Cooling	2017
The Curious Case of Projected Twenty-First-Century Drying but Greening in the American West	2017
Internal ocean-atmosphere variability drives megadroughts in Western North America	2016
North American megadroughts in the Common Era: reconstructions and simulations	2016
Relative impacts of mitigation, temperature, and precipitation on 21st-century megadrought risk in the American Southwest	2016
Are Simulated Megadroughts in the North American Southwest Forced?	2015
Assessing the evolving fragility of the global food system	2015
Bridging Past and Future Climate across Paleoclimatic Reconstructions, Observations, and Models: A Hydroclimate Case Study	2015
Causes of interannual to decadal variability of Gila River streamflow over the past century	2015
Climatology, Variability, and Trends in the U.S. Vapor Pressure Deficit, an Important Fire-Related Meteorological Quantity	2015
Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012–2014	2015
North American Pancontinental Droughts in Model Simulations of the Last Millennium	2015
Supplemental Data: Climatology, variability and trends in United States vapor pressure deficit, an important fire-related meteorological quantity	2015
Unprecedented 21st century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains	2015
Urbanization causes increased cloud base height and decreased fog in coastal Southern California	2015
Winter-to-summer precipitation phasing in southwestern North America: A multicentury perspective from paleoclimatic model-data comparisons	2015
Broadleaf Forest Raw Recruitment Data	2014
Dynamical and Thermodynamical Causes of Large-Scale Changes in the Hydrological Cycle over North America in Response to Global Warming	2014
Global Warming and 21st Century Drying	2014
Hydroclimate Variability and Change in the Prairie Pothole Region, the “Duck Factory” of North America	2014
Pan-Continental Droughts in North America over the Last Millennium	2014
The legacy of episodic climatic events in shaping temperate, broadleaf forests	2014
The worst North American drought year of the last millennium: 1934	2014
Dust Bowl	2013
Intensification of North American Megadroughts through Surface and Dust Aerosol Forcing	2013
Megadroughts in Southwestern North America in ECHO-G Millennial Simulations and Their Comparison to Proxy Drought Reconstructions	2013
Paleoclimate histories improve access and sustainability in index insurance programs	2013
Projections of declining surface-water availability for the southwestern United States	2013
Stationarity of the Tropical Pacific Teleconnection to North America in CMIP5/PMIP3 Model Simulations	2013
The response of the North American Monsoon to increased greenhouse gas forcing	2013
Atmospheric circulation anomalies during two persistent north american droughts: 1932-1939 and 1948-1957	2011
The impact of devegetated dune fields on North American climate during the late Medieval Climate Anomaly	2011
Forced and unforced variability of twentieth century North American droughts and pluvials	2010
On the causes and dynamics of the early twentieth century North American pluvial	2010
Amplification of the North American ‘‘Dust Bowl’’ drought through human-induced land degradation	2009
Global surface temperature signals in pine ring-width chronologies from southern monsoon Asia	2005

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Benjamin L Cook

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65 PUBLICATIONS ON COLUMBIA | ACADEMIC COMMONS