Rob Wilson

Prof. Rob Wilson
Director of Teaching
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of St Andrews
Irvine Building
North Street
St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9AL
United Kingdom


Phone: +44 (0)1334 463 914
Fax: +44 (0)1334 463 949
E-mail: rjsw(at)st-andrews.ac.uk
URL Institution: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/earth-sciences/
Personal URL: link


Key Publications of Rob Wilson (up to ten) :
Toohey, M., Krüger, K., Schmidt, H., Timmreck, C., Sigl, M., Stoffel, M and Wilson, R. 2019. Disproportionately strong climate forcing from explosive extratropical volcanic eruptions. Nature Geoscience, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0286-2

Wilson, R., Anchukaitis, K., Andreu-Hayles, L., Cook, E., D’Arrigo, R., Davi, N., Haberbauer, L., Krusic, P., Luckman, B., Morimoto, D. and Oelkers, R., 2019. Improved dendroclimatic calibration using blue intensity in the southern Yukon. The Holocene, p.0959683619862037.

Lücke, L., Hegerl, G., Schurer, A. and Wilson, R., 2019. Effects of memory biases on variability of temperature reconstructions. Journal of Climate, (2019).

Klesse, S., Babst, F., Lienert, S., Spahni, R., Joos, F., Bouriaud, O., Carrer, M., Di Filippo, A., Poulter, B., Trotsiuk, V. and Wilson, R. 2018. A Combined Tree Ring and Vegetation Model Assessment of European Forest Growth Sensitivity to Interannual Climate Variability. Global biogeochemical cycles, 32(8), pp.1226-1240.

Büntgen, U., Wacker, L., Galván, J.D., Arnold, S., Arseneault, D., Baillie, M., Beer, J., Bernabei, M., Bleicher, N., Boswijk, G., Bräuning, A., Carrer, M., Ljungqvist, F.C., Cherubini, P., Christl, M., Christie, D.A., Clark, P.W., Cook, E.R., D'Arrigo, R., Davi, N., Eggertsson, Ó., Esper, J., Fowler, A.M., Gedalof, Z., Gennaretti, F., Grießinger, J., Grissino-Mayer, H., Grudd, H., Gunnarson, B.E., Hantemirov, R., Herzig, F., Hessl, A., Heussner, K.-.U., Jull, A.J.T., Kukarskih, V., Kirdyanov, A., Kolá?, T., Krusic, P.J., Kyncl, T., Lara, A., LeQuesne, C., Linderholm, H.W., Loader, N.J., Luckman, B., Miyake, F., Myglan, V.S., Nicolussi, K., Oppenheimer, C., Palmer, J., Panyushkina, I., Pederson, N., Rybní?ek, M., Schweingruber, F.H., Seim, A., Sigl, M., Churakova Sidorova, O., Speer, J.H., Synal, H.-.A., Tegel, W., Treydte, K., Villalba, R., Wiles, G., Wilson, R., Winship, L.J., Wunder, J., Yang, B. and Young, G.H.F., 2018. Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE. Nature communications, v. 9, p.3605-. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06036-0

Anchukaitis, K.J., R. Wilson, K. Briffa, U. Büntgen, E.R. Cook, R.D. D’Arrigo, N. Davi, J. Esper, D. Frank, B. Gunnarson, G. Hegerl, S. Helama, S. Klesse, P.J. Krusic, H. Linderholm, V. Myglan, T. J. Osborn, Z. Peng, M. Rydval, L. Schneider, A. Schurer, G. Wiles and E. Zorita.(2017). Last millennium Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part II: spatially resolved reconstructions, Quaternary Science Reviews, 163, 1-22, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.02.020

Rydval, M., Loader, N.J., Gunnarson, B.E., Druckenbrod, D.L., Linderholm, H.W., Moreton, S.G., Wood, C.V. and Wilson, R., 2017. Reconstructing 800 years of summer temperatures in Scotland from tree rings. Climate Dynamics, pp.1-24.

Wilson R, Anchukaitis K, Briffa K, Büntgen U, Cook E, D’Arrigo R, Davi N, Esper J, Frank D, Gunnarson B, Hegerl G, Helema S, Klesse S, Krusic P, Linderholm HW, Myglan V, Osborn T, Rydval M, Schneider L, Schurer A, Wiles G, Zhang P, Zorita (2016). Last millennium Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part I: the long term context. Quaternary Science Reviews 134: 1-18

Rydval, M., Druckenbrod, D., Anchukaitis, K and Wilson, R. (2015). Detection and removal of disturbance trends in tree-ring series for dendroclimatology. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 46(3): 387-401. DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2015-0366. [view PDF]

Cook ER, Seager R, Kushnir Y, Briffa KR, Büntgen U, Frank D, Krusic PJ, Tegel W, van der Schrier G, Andreu-Hayles L, Baillie M, Baittinger C, Bleicher N, Bonde N, Brown D, Career M, Cooper R, Cufar K, Dittmar C, Esper J, Griggs C, Gunnarson B, Günther B, Gutierrez E, Haneca K, Helama S, Herzig F, Heussner K-U, Hofmann J, Janda P, Kontic R, Köse N, Kyncl T, Levanic T, Linderholm H, Manning S, Melvin TM, Miles D, Neuwirth B, Nicolussi K, Nola P, Panayotov M, Popa I, Rothe A, Seftigen K, Seim A, Svarva H, Svoboda M, Thun T, Timonen M, Touchan R, Trotsiuk V, Trouet V, Walder F, Wazny T, Wilson R, Zang C (2015) Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era. Science Advances 1: e1500561


Expertise of Rob Wilson:
Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
Expert TypeScientific / Fundamental Research
Topic AtmosphereAtmosphere
Climate
Global Warming
Air Pollution
Topic HydrosphereHydrosphere
Precipitation / Runoff
Time FramePast
Past: Historical / Archeological
Recent / Today
Statistical FocusExtreme Events
Mean Change / Trends
Variability
Time ScaleSeasonal / Annual
Decadal / Centennial
Millenial
MethodsData Collection
Data Collection - Measurement
Data Analysis

Specialties of Rob Wilson:
Climate reconstruction using annually resolved proxy records - tree rings, corals and historical sources

Last update: 11/28/19
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