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Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District

(*reprints available from Connie Woodhouse)

Cook, E. R., D. M. Meko, D. W. Stahle, and M. K. Cleaveland, 1999. Drought reconstructions for the continental United States, J. Climate, 12(4): 1145-1162.

Earle, C.J., 1993. Asynchronous droughts in California streamflow as reconstructed from tree rings. Quaternary Research 39: 290-299.

Fritts, H.C., 1976. Tree Rings and Climate. Academic Press, London.

*Jain, S., C.A. Woodhouse, M.P.Hoerling. 2002. Multidecadal streamflow regimes in the interior western United States: implications for the vulnerability of water resources. Geophysical Research Letters, 29: 2036-2039.

Meko, D. and D.A. Graybill, 1995. Tree-ring reconstructions of upper Gila River discharge. Water Resources Bulletin 31: 605-615.

Meko, D.M., M.D.Therrell, C.H.Baisan, and M.K Hughes, 2001. Sacramento River flow reconstructed to A.D. 869 from tree rings: J. of the American Water Resources Association 37(4): 1029-1040.

Meko, D., C.W. Stockton, and W.R. Boggess, 1995. The tree-ring record of severe sustained drought. Water Resources Bulletin 31: 789-801.

Smith, L.P. and C.W. Stockton, 1981. Reconstructed stream flow for the Salt and Verde Rivers from tree-ring data. Water Resources Bulletin 17: 939-947.

Stockton, C.W. and G.C. Jacoby, 1976. Long-term surface water supply and streamflow levels in the upper Colorado River basin. Lake Powell Research Project Bulletin No. 18, Inst. of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, 70 pp.

*Woodhouse, C.A. 1999. Artificial neural networks and dendroclimatic reconstructions: an example from the Front Range, Colorado, USA. The Holocene 9: 521-529.

*Woodhouse, C.A. 2000. Extending hydrologic records with tree rings. Water Resources Impact 2:25-27.

*Woodhouse, C.A. 2001. A tree-ring reconstruction of streamflow for the Colorado Front Range. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 37: 561-570.

*Woodhouse, C.A. 2003. A 431-year reconstruction of western Colorado snowpack from tree rings. Journal of Climate 16: 1551-1561.

*Woodhouse, C.A. and P.M. Brown. 2001. Tree-ring evidence for Great Plains drought. Tree-Ring Research 57: 89-103.

*Woodhouse, C.A., J.J. Lukas, and P.M. Brown. 2002. Drought in the western Great Plains, 1845-56: impacts and implications. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 83: 1485-1493.

*Woodhouse, C.A. and J.T. Overpeck. 1998. 2000 years of drought variability in the central United States. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 79: 2693-2714.