Dr. Mukund Palat Rao

Pronouns: he/him
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Tree Ring Laboratory, Biology and Paleo Environment, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia Climate School
Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow, CREAF, Barcelona, Spain
Tree Ring Laboratory, LDEO 61 Route 9W, P.O. 1000 Palisades, NY 10964 USA

BIOGRAPHY:

I am an Ecoclimatologist and Carbon Cycle Scientist. I received my PhD from Columbia University in 2020 following which I was a NOAA Climate & Global Change fellow at University of California Davis. I am currently a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Barcelona, Spain. My research aims to illuminate the future of ecosystems and the forest carbon cycle in a changing climate by drawing on my expertise in climate science, plant ecophysiology, dendrochronology, earth system models, and remote sensing. My research spans a broad array of spatial and temporal scales from cells to satellites and seconds to centuries. I am currently working on projects related to the role of tree growth in the forest carbon cycle, the vulnerability of forests to increasing heat waves, and the use of dendrochronology to understand past environmental change and timber transport.

A complete list of my publications can be found on Google Scholar.

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Name	Published Date
A 300-year tree-ring δ18O-based precipitation reconstruction for the South American Altiplano highlights decadal hydroclimate teleconnections	2024
Past, present, and future of the South Asian monsoon	2024
Reconstruction of July-September standardized precipitation-evapotranspiration index (SPEI) for the Hindu Kush region of Northern Pakistan	2024
The biological basis for using optical signals to track evergreen needleleaf photosynthesis	2024
Tree ring derived summer temperature variability over the past millennium in the western Himalayas of northern Pakistan	2024
500-year reconstruction of Dez River discharge in southwestern Iran from tree rings	2023
Approaching a thermal tipping point in the Eurasian boreal forest at its southern margin	2023
A Spatiotemporal Assessment of Extreme Cold in Northwestern North America Following the Unidentified 1809 CE Volcanic Eruption	2023
Exploring the potential for a multi-decadal midsummer streamflow reconstruction of the upper Samalá river basin in Guatemala using an Abies guatemalensis tree-ring chronology	2023
How resilient are waterways of the Asian Himalayas? Finding adaptive measures for future sustainability	2023
The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: Reviewing and expanding the utility of Pinus palustris Mill. Dendrochronological data	2023
Towards monitoring stem growth phenology from space with high resolution satellite data	2023
Dendrochronological dating and provenance determination of a 19th century whaler in Patagonia (Puerto Madryn, Argentina)	2022
Estimating return intervals for extreme climate conditions related to winter disasters and livestock mortality in Mongolia	2022
Hydroclimate and ENSO Variability Recorded by Oxygen Isotopes From Tree Rings in the South American Altiplano	2022
Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene	2022
Unprecedented high Northern Australian streamflow linked to intensification of the Indo-Australian Monsoon	2022
Accelerated Recent Warming and Temperature Variability Over the Past Eight Centuries in the Central Asian Altai From Blue Intensity in Tree Rings	2021
Dendroarchaeological analysis of the Terminal Warehouse in New York City reveals a history of long-distance timber transport during the Gilded Age	2021
Different climate sensitivity for radial growth, but uniform for tree-ring stable isotopes along an aridity gradient in Polylepis tarapacana, the world’s highest elevation tree-species	2021
Last two millennia of streamflow variability in the headwater catchment of the Yellow River basin reconstructed from tree rings	2021
Placing the east-west North American aridity gradient in a multi-century context	2021
Hydroclimate variability and environmental change in Eurasia over the past millennium and its impacts	2020
Seven centuries of reconstructed Brahmaputra River discharge demonstrate underestimated high discharge and flood hazard frequency	2020
A double bootstrap approach to Superposed Epoch Analysis to evaluate response uncertainty	2019
Investigating the Causes of Increased Twentieth-Century Fall Precipitation over the Southeastern United States	2019
Socio-ecological Interactions in a Changing Climate: A Review of the Mongolian Pastoral System	2019
Six Centuries of Upper Indus Basin Streamflow Variability and Its Climatic Drivers	2018
Strip‐Bark Morphology and Radial Growth Trends in Ancient Pinus sibirica Trees From Central Mongolia	2018
Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era	2017
European and Mediterranean hydroclimate responses to tropical volcanic forcing over the last millennium	2017
Karakorum temperature out of phase with hemispheric trends for the past five centuries	2016
A long-term context (931–2005 C.E.) for rapid warming over Central Asia	2015
Dzuds, droughts, and livestock mortality in Mongolia	2015

PUBLICATIONS

A complete list of my publications can be found on Google Scholar.

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Dr. Mukund Palat Rao

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PUBLICATIONS