Publications:

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Publications, in chronological order:

Wagner, A.J., T.P. Guilderson, N.C. Slowey, J.E. Cole (2008). Pre-bomb surface water radiocarbon of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean as recorded in hermatypic corals. In press, Radiocarbon.

Conroy, J.L., J.T. Overpeck, J.E. Cole, M. Steinetz-Kannan, T.R. Shanahan (2008) Abrupt changes in eastern tropical Pacific climate during the Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 27, 1166-1180.

Overpeck, J.T. and JE Cole. (2008). The rhythm of the rains. Nature 451, 1061-1063. (News and Views)

Fleitmann, D, R.B. Dunbar, M. McCulloch, M. Mudelsee, M. Vuille, J. Cole, T. McClanahan, C. Andrews (2007). East African soil erosion recorded in a 300 year old coral colony from Kenya. Geophysical Research Letters 34, L04401, doi:10.1029/2006GL028525.

Overpeck, J.T. and J.E. Cole (2007). Lessons from a distant monsoon. Nature 445, 270-271. (News and Views)

Jansen, E. et al., (2007) Palaeoclimate. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Solomon, S., D. Qin, et al., eds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA (contributing author).

Overpeck, J.T. and J.E. Cole (2006). Abrupt change in the Earth’s climate system. Annual Reviews of Environment and Resources 31. 1-32.

Damassa, T.D., J.E. Cole, H.R. Barnett, T.R. Ault, T.R. McClanahan (2006) Enhanced multidecadal climate variability in the 17th century from coral isotope records in the western Indian Ocean. Paleoceanography 21, PA2016, doi: 10.1029/2005PA001217.

Cohen, A, K. Lezzar, J.E. Cole, D. Dettman, G. Ellis, M. Eagle-Gonneea, P.D. Plisnier, V. Langenberg, M. Blaauw, D. Zilifi (2006). Late Holocene linkages between decade-century scale climate variability and productivity at Lake Tanganyika, Africa. Journal of Paleolimnology 36, 189-209.

Morrill, C., J.T.Overpeck , J.E. Cole, K.-B. Liu, C. Shen and L. Tang (2006) Holocene variations in the Asian monsoon inferred from the geochemistry of lake sediments in central Tibet. Quaternary Research 65 (2), 232-243.

Overpeck, J., K.B. Liu, C. Morrill, J. Cole, C. Shen, D. Anderson, and L. Tang. 2005. Holocene environmental change in the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau region: Lake sediments and the future. In: Global Change and Mountain Regions: An overview of current knowledge, U.M. Huber, H.K.M. Bugmann, and M.A. Reasoner, eds., Springer, Netherlands, pp. 83-92.

D'Arrigo, R.D., R. Wilson, C. Deser, G. Wiles, E. Cook, R. Villalba, A. Tudhope, J. Cole and B. Linsley (2005). Tropical-North Pacific Climate Linkages Over the Past Four Centuries. Journal of Climate 18, 5253-5265.

Guilderson, T.P., J.E. Cole, and J.R. Southon, Pre-bomb ?14C variability and the Suess Effect in Cariaco Basin Surface Waters as Recorded in Hermatypic Corals. Radiocarbon 47 (1), 57-65, 2005.

Overpeck, J.T., J.E. Cole, and P.J. Bartlein, A "paleoperspective" on climate variability and change, in Climate Change and Biodiversity, T. Lovejoy and L. Hannah, eds., Yale University Press, 2005.

Cole, J.E., 2003, Holocene coral records: Windows on tropical climate variability. In: Global Change in the Holocene, McKay, A., R. Battarbee, J. Birks, and F. Oldfield, eds., Arnold, London, pp. 168-184.

Reuer, M.K., E.A. Boyle, and J.E. Cole, A mid-century reduction in tropical upwelling inferred from coralline trace element proxies. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 210(3-4), 437-452, 2003.

Bradley, R.S., K.Briffa, J.E. Cole, M.K. Hughes, and T.J. Osborn, Climate of the last millennium, in Paleoclimate, Global Change and the Future, ed. by K. Alverson, R.S. Bradley, and T. Pedersen. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 105-141, 2003.

Labeyrie, L., J.E. Cole, K. Alverson, and T. Stocker, The history of climate dynamics, in Paleoclimate, Global Change and the Future, ed. by K. Alverson, R.S. Bradley, and T. Pedersen. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 33-61, 2003.

Morrill, C., J.T. Overpeck, and J.E. Cole. A synthesis of abrupt changes in the Asian monsoon since the last deglaciation. The Holocene, 13(4), 465-476, 2003.

Cole., J. Dishing the dirt on coral reefs. Nature 421, 705-6, 2003. (News and Views: solicited and editorially reviewed, but not peer reviewed)

Clark, C.O., P.J. Webster, and J.E. Cole, Interdecadal changes in the relationship between the Indian Ocean zonal mode and East African coastal rainfall anomalies, Journal of Climate, 16, 548-554, 2003.

Mathieu, R.M., D. Pollard, J. Cole, J.W.C. White, R.S. Webb, S. Thompson, 2002, Simulation of stable water isotope variations by the GENESIS GCM for present-day conditions , J. Geophys. Res. 107, DOI: 10.1029/2001JD900255, 2002.

Cole, J.E., J.T. Overpeck, and E.R. Cook, 2002, Multiyear La Niña events and persistent droughts in the contiguousUnited States Geophysical Research Letters 29(13), DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013561, 25-1Ð25-4, 2002.

Cole, J.E., A slow dance for El Niño, 2001, Science 291, 1496-7.

Urban, F.E, J. Cole, and J.T. Overpeck, 2000, Influence of mean climate change on climate variability from a 155-year tropical Pacific coral record. Nature 407, 989-993.

Clark, C.O., J.E. Cole, and P.J. Webster, 2000, Indian Ocean SST and Indian summer rainfall: Predictive relationships and their decadal variability, Journal of Climate 13, 2503-2519.

Cook, E.R., R.D. D'Arrigo, J.E. Cole, D.W. Stahle, and R. Villalba, 2000, Tree-ring records of past ENSO variability and forcing. In: El Nino and the Southern Oscillation: Multiscale Variability and its Impacts on Natural Ecosystems and Society, ed. by H. Diaz and V. Markgraf, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 297-323.

Cole, J. E., R. B. Dunbar, T. R. McClanahan, and N. Muthiga, 2000, Tropical Pacific forcing of decadal SST variability in the western Indian Ocean over the past two centuries, Science287, 617-619.

Gagan, M.K., L.K. Ayliffe, J.W. Beck, J.E. Cole, E.R.M. Druffel, R.B. Dunbar, D.P. Schrag, 2000, New Views of Tropical Paleoclimates from Corals, Quaternary Science Reviews 19, 45-64.

Cole, J.E., D. Rind, R. Webb, J. Jouzel, and R. Healy, 1999, Global controls on interannual variability of precipitation d¹⁸O: the relative roles of temperature, precipitation amount, and vapor source region, Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, 14223-14235.

Cole, J.E. and E.R. Cook, 1998, The changing relationship between ENSO and US drought. Geophysical Research Letters, 25, 4529-32.

Stahle, D. W., R. D. D'Arrigo, P. J. Krusic, M. K. Cleaveland, E. R. Cook, R. J. Allan, J. E. Cole, R. B. Dunbar, M. D. Therrell, D. A. Gay, M. D. Moore, M. A. Stokes, B. T. Burns, J. Villanueva-Diaz, and L. G. Thompson, 1998, Experimental dendroclimatic reconstruction of the Southern Oscillation, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 79, 2137-2152.

Cole, J.E., 1996, Coral records of climate change: understanding past variability in the tropical ocean-atmosphere. In: Jones, P.D., R.S. Bradley, and J. Jouzel (eds.), Climatic fluctuations and forcing mechanisms of the last 2000 years, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 333-355.

Cole, J.E., R.G. Fairbanks, and G.T. Shen, 1995, Monitoring the tropical ocean-atmosphere using chemical records from long-lived corals. Decade to Century Time Scales of Natural Climate Variability, National Academy of Sciences, 495-504.

Cole, J.E., D. Rind, and R.G. Fairbanks 1993, Isotopic responses to interannual climate variability simulated by the GISS GCM. Quaternary Science Reviews 12, pp. 387-406.

Cole, J.E., R.G. Fairbanks, and G.T. Shen, 1993, The spectrum of recent variability in the Southern Oscillation: results from a Tarawa Atoll coral. Science 260, 1790-1793.

Cole, J.E., G.T. Shen, R.G. Fairbanks, and M. Moore, 1992, Coral monitors of ENSO dynamics across the equatorial Pacific. In: El Niño: Historical and Paleoclimatic Aspects of the Southern Oscillation, ed. by H. Diaz and V. Markgraf, 349-375.

Shen, G.T., J. Cole, D. Lea, L. Linn, T. McConnaughey, and R. Fairbanks, 1992, Surface ocean variability at Galapagos from 1936-1982: Calibration of geochemical tracers in corals. Paleoceanography 7, 563-588.

Cook, E.R. and J.E. Cole, 1991, On predicting the response of Eastern North American forests to future climatic change. Climatic Change 19, pp. 271-282.

Shen, G.T., T. Campbell, L. Linn, J.E. Cole, and R.G. Fairbanks, 1991, A chemical tracer of trade wind reversal in corals from the western tropical Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research 97, pp.12,689-12,698.

Cole, J.E. and R.G. Fairbanks, 1990, The Southern Oscillation recorded in the d18O of corals from Tarawa Atoll. Paleoceanography 5, pp. 669-683.