By Dr Jonathan Palmer

Journal articles

Sharifazari S; Palmer JG; Johnson F; Turney CSM; Andersen MS, 2024, 'A multi-centennial drought reconstruction from tree-rings reveals a growing threat to Christmas Island's water resources', Dendrochronologia, 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2024.126238

Palmer JG; Verdon‑Kidd D; Allen KJ; Higgins P; Cook BI; Cook ER; Turney CSM; Baker PJ, 2024, 'Correction to: Drought and deluge: the recurrence of hydroclimate extremes during the past 600 years in eastern Australia’s Natural Resource Management (NRM) clusters (Natural Hazards, (2024), 120, 4, (3565-3587), 10.1007/s11069-023-06288-0)', Natural Hazards, 120, pp. 8093 - 8094, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-023-06396-x

Allen KJ; Verdon-Kidd DC; Freund MB; Tozer CR; Palmer JG; Higgins PA; Saunders KM; Baker PJ, 2024, 'Distinct geographical and seasonal signals in two tree-ring based streamflow reconstructions from Tasmania, southeastern Australia', Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2024.101736

Palmer JG; Verdon-Kidd D; Allen KJ; Higgins P; Cook BI; Cook ER; Turney CSM; Baker PJ, 2024, 'Drought and deluge: the recurrence of hydroclimate extremes during the past 600 years in eastern Australia’s Natural Resource Management (NRM) clusters', Natural Hazards, 120, pp. 3565 - 3587, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-023-06288-0

Anderson A; Becerra-Valdivia L; Cadd H; Marjo CE; Palmer J; Turney C; Wilmshurst JM, 2024, 'The age and position of the southern boundary of prehistoric Polynesian dispersal', Archaeology in Oceania, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/arco.5337

Plunkett G; Reimer PJ; Blaauw M; Brown DM; Palmer J; Pilcher J, 2024, 'Mike Baillie – Slices of Time', Radiocarbon, 66, pp. 605 - 609, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rdc.2024.101

Higgins PA; Palmer JG; Andersen MS; Turney CSM; Johnson F; Allen K; Verdon-Kidd D; Cook ER, 2023, 'Examining past and projecting future: an 800-year streamflow reconstruction of the Australian Murray river', Environmental Research Letters, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acf8d9

Sharifazari S; Palmer JG; Higgins PA; Rao MP; Johnson F; Turney CSM; Martín-Benito D; Andersen MS, 2023, '500-year reconstruction of Dez River discharge in southwestern Iran from tree rings', Journal of Hydrology, 624, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129895

Higgins PA; Palmer JG; Andersen MS; Turney CSM; Johnson F, 2023, 'Extreme events in the multi-proxy South Pacific drought atlas', Climatic Change, 176, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-023-03585-2

Haines HA; Hiscock WT; Palmer JG; Turney CSM; Thomas ZA; Cadd H; Vohra J; Marjo CE, 2023, 'The accuracy and precision of small-sized modern wood samples analyzed at the Chronos 14Carbon-Cycle Facility', Radiocarbon, 65, pp. 561 - 571, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2023.4

Bronk Ramsey C; Adolphi F; Austin W; Bard E; Bayliss A; Blaauw M; Cheng H; Edwards RL; Friedrich M; Heaton T; Hogg A; Hua Q; Hughen K; Kromer B; Manning S; Muscheler R; Palmer J; Pearson C; Reimer P; Reimer R; Richards D; Scott M; Southon J; Turney C; Wacker L, 2023, 'Development of the Intcal Database', Radiocarbon, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2023.53

Palmer JG; Turney CSM; Thomas ZA; Fenwick P; Richardson SJ; Wilmshurst JM; McGlone MS, 2023, 'Growth rates and ages of some key tree species from subantarctic Auckland and Campbell Islands', New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.20417/nzjecol.47.3509

Büntgen U; Crivellaro A; Arseneault D; Baillie M; Barclay D; Bernabei M; Bontadi J; Boswijk G; Brown D; Christie DA; Churakova OV; Cook ER; D'Arrigo R; Davi N; Esper J; Fonti P; Greaves C; Hantemirov RM; Hughes MK; Kirdyanov AV; Krusic PJ; Le Quesne C; Ljungqvist FC; McCormick M; Myglan VS; Nicolussi K; Oppenheimer C; Palmer J; Qin C; Reinig F; Salzer M; Stoffel M; Torbenson M; Trnka M; Villalba R; Wiesenberg N; Wiles G; Yang B; Piermattei A, 2022, 'Global wood anatomical perspective on the onset of the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA) in the mid-6th century CE', Science Bulletin, 67, pp. 2336 - 2344, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2022.10.019

Cook BI; Smerdon JE; Cook ER; Williams AP; Anchukaitis KJ; Mankin JS; Allen K; Andreu-Hayles L; Ault TR; Belmecheri S; Coats S; Coulthard B; Fosu B; Grierson P; Griffin D; Herrera DA; Ionita M; Lehner F; Leland C; Marvel K; Morales MS; Mishra V; Ngoma J; Nguyen HTT; O’Donnell A; Palmer J; Rao MP; Rodriguez-Caton M; Seager R; Stahle DW; Stevenson S; Thapa UK; Varuolo-Clarke AM; Wise EK, 2022, 'Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene', Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, 3, pp. 741 - 757, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00329-1

Hua Q; Turnbull JC; Santos GM; Rakowski AZ; Ancapichún S; De Pol-Holz R; Hammer S; Lehman SJ; Levin I; Miller JB; Palmer JG; Turney CSM, 2022, 'ATMOSPHERIC RADIOCARBON FOR THE PERIOD 1950-2019', Radiocarbon, 64, pp. 723 - 745, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2021.95

Higgins PA; Palmer JG; Turney CSM; Andersen MS; Johnson F, 2022, 'Do Southern Hemisphere tree rings record past volcanic events? A case study from New Zealand', Climate of the Past, 18, pp. 1169 - 1188, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1169-2022

Hogg AG; Lorrey AM; Turney CSM; Palmer JG; Boswijk G; Fenwick P, 2022, 'Advances and limitations in establishing a contiguous high-resolution atmospheric radiocarbon record derived from subfossil kauri tree rings for the interval 60–27 cal kyr BP', Quaternary Geochronology, 68, pp. 101251, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2021.101251

Higgins PA; Palmer JG; Rao MP; Andersen MS; Turney CSM; Johnson F, 2022, 'Unprecedented High Northern Australian Streamflow Linked to an Intensification of the Indo-Australian Monsoon', Water Resources Research, 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021WR030881

Wilson R; Allen K; Baker P; Boswijk G; Buckley B; Cook E; D'arrigo R; Druckenbrod D; Fowler A; Grandjean M; Krusic P; Palmer J, 2021, 'Evaluating the dendroclimatological potential of blue intensity on multiple conifer species from Tasmania and New Zealand', Biogeosciences, 18, pp. 6393 - 6421, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-6393-2021

Cooper A; Turney C; Palmer J; Hogg A; McGlone M; Wilmshurst J; Lorrey AM; Heaton TJ; Russell JM; McCracken K; Anet JG; Rozanov E; Friedel M; Suter I; Peter T; Muscheler R; Adolphi F; Dosseto A; Faith JT; Fenwick P; Fogwill CJ; Hughen K; Lipson M; Liu J; Nowaczyk N; Rainsley E; Bronk Ramsey C; Sebastianelli P; Souilmi Y; Stevenson J; Thomas Z; Tobler R; Zech R, 2021, 'Response to the Technical Comment by Andrea Picin et al.', Science

Cooper A; Turney C; Palmer J; Hogg A; McGlone M; Wilmshurst J; Lorrey AM; Heaton TJ; Russell JM; McCracken K; Anet JG; Rozanov E; Friedel M; Suter I; Peter T; Muscheler R; Adolphi F; Dosseto A; Faith JT; Fenwick P; Fogwill CJ; Hughen K; Lipson M; Liu J; Nowaczyk N; Rainsley E; Bronk Ramsey C; Sebastianelli P; Souilmi Y; Stevenson J; Thomas Z; Tobler R; Zech R, 2021, 'Response to the Technical Comment by John Hawkes', Science

Cooper A; Turney CSM; Palmer J; Hogg A; McGlone M; Wilmshurst J; Lorrey AM; Heaton TJ; Russell JM; McCracken K; Anet JG; Rozanov E; Friedel M; Suter I; Peter T; Muscheler R; Adolphi F; Dosseto A; Faith JT; Fenwick P; Fogwill CJ; Hughen K; Lipson M; Liu J; Nowaczyk N; Rainsley E; Bronk Ramsey C; Sebastianelli P; Souilmi Y; Stevenson J; Thomas Z; Tobler R; Zech R, 2021, 'Response to Comment on "A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago"', Science (New York, N.Y.), 374, pp. eabi9756, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abi9756

Cooper A; Turney CSM; Palmer J; Hogg A; McGlone M; Wilmshurst J; Lorrey AM; Heaton TJ; Russell JM; McCracken K; Anet JG; Rozanov E; Friedel M; Suter I; Peter T; Muscheler R; Adolphi F; Dosseto A; Faith JT; Fenwick P; Fogwill CJ; Hughen K; Lipson M; Liu J; Nowaczyk N; Rainsley E; Ramsey CB; Sebastianelli P; Souilmi Y; Stevenson J; Thomas Z; Tobler R; Zech R, 2021, 'Response to comment on “A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago”', Science, 374, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abh3655

Turney C; Becerra-Valdivia L; Sookdeo A; Thomas ZA; Palmer J; Haines HA; Cadd H; Wacker L; Baker A; Andersen MS; Jacobsen G; Meredith K; Chinu K; Bollhalder S; Marjo C, 2021, 'RADIOCARBON PROTOCOLS and FIRST INTERCOMPARISON RESULTS from the CHRONOS ¹⁴CARBON-CYCLE FACILITY, UNIVERSITY of NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA', Radiocarbon, 63, pp. 1003 - 1023, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2021.23

Turney C; Golledge N; Reimer P; Heaton T; Hogg A; Thomas Z; Belcerra-Valdivia L; Blaauw M; Cadd H; Haines H; Harris M; Marjo C; Palmer J, 2021, 'Redating the Global Abrupt Sea-Level Rise during Meltwater Pulse-1A and Implications for Global Ice Mass Loss', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-13669

Cooper A; Turney C; Palmer J; Hogg A; McGlone M; Wilmshurst J; Lorrey A; Heaton T; Russell J; McCracken K; Anet J; Rozanov E; Friedel M; Suter I; Peter T; Muscheler R; Adolphi F; Dosseto A; Faith T; Fenwick P; Fogwill C; Hughen K; Lipson M; Liu J; Nowaczyk N; Rainsley E; Bronk Ramsey C; Sebastianelli P; Souilmi Y; Stevenson J; Thomas Z; Tobler R; Zech R, 2021, 'A Global Environmental Crisis 42,000 Years Ago', Science, 371, pp. 811 - 818, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abb8677

Pauly M; Turney CSM; Palmer JG; Büntgen U; Brauer A; Helle G, 2021, 'Kauri Tree-Ring Stable Isotopes Reveal a Centennial Climate Downturn Following the Antarctic Cold Reversal in New Zealand', Geophysical Research Letters, 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090299

Allen KJ; Freund MB; Palmer JG; Simkin R; Williams L; Brookhouse M; Cook ER; Stewart S; Baker PJ, 2020, 'Hydroclimate extremes in a north Australian drought reconstruction asymmetrically linked with Central Pacific Sea surface temperatures', Global and Planetary Change, 195, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103329

Rao MP; Cook ER; Cook BI; D’Arrigo RD; Palmer JG; Lall U; Woodhouse CA; Buckley BM; Uriarte M; Bishop DA; Jian J; Webster PJ, 2020, 'Seven centuries of reconstructed Brahmaputra River discharge demonstrate underestimated high discharge and flood hazard frequency', Nature Communications, 11, pp. 6017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19795-6

Higgins PA; Palmer JG; Turney CSM; Andersen MS; Cook ER, 2020, 'One Thousand Three Hundred Years of Variability in the Position of the South Pacific Convergence Zone', Geophysical Research Letters, 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088238

Hogg AG; Heaton TJ; Hua Q; Palmer JG; Turney CSM; Southon J; Bayliss A; Blackwell PG; Boswijk G; Bronk Ramsey C; Pearson C; Petchey F; Reimer P; Reimer R; Wacker L, 2020, 'SHCal20 Southern Hemisphere Calibration, 0-55,000 Years cal BP', Radiocarbon, 62, pp. 759 - 778, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2020.59

Reimer PJ; Austin WEN; Bard E; Bayliss A; Blackwell PG; Bronk Ramsey C; Butzin M; Cheng H; Edwards RL; Friedrich M; Grootes PM; Guilderson TP; Hajdas I; Heaton TJ; Hogg AG; Hughen KA; Kromer B; Manning SW; Muscheler R; Palmer JG; Pearson C; Van Der Plicht J; Reimer RW; Richards DA; Scott EM; Southon JR; Turney CSM; Wacker L; Adolphi F; Büntgen U; Capano M; Fahrni SM; Fogtmann-Schulz A; Friedrich R; Köhler P; Kudsk S; Miyake F; Olsen J; Reinig F; Sakamoto M; Sookdeo A; Talamo S, 2020, 'The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0-55 cal kBP)', Radiocarbon, 62, pp. 725 - 757, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2020.41

Thomas ZA; Jones RT; Turney CSM; Golledge N; Fogwill C; Bradshaw CJA; Menviel L; McKay NP; Bird M; Palmer J; Kershaw P; Wilmshurst J; Muscheler R, 2020, 'Tipping elements and amplified polar warming during the Last Interglacial', Quaternary Science Reviews, 233, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106222

Haines HA; Palmer JG; English NB; Hua Q; Gadd PS; Kemp J; Olley JM, 2020, 'The use of multiple dendrochronological techniques to develop a 200-year drought record for subtropical Southeast Queensland, Australia', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-11768

Blake SAP; Palmer J; Björklund J; Harper JB; Turney CSM, 2020, 'Palaeoclimate potential of New Zealand Manoao colensoi (silver pine) tree rings using Blue-Intensity (BI)', Dendrochronologia, 60, pp. 125664 - 125664, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2020.125664

Hogg A; Wilson CJN; Lowe DJ; Turney C; White P; Lorrey A; Manning S; Palmer J; Bury S; Brown J; Southon J; Petchey F, 2019, 'Correspondence: The Taupo eruption occurred in 232 ± 10 CE, and not later', EarthArXiv, http://dx.doi.org/10.31223/osf.io/7r5jp

Rainsley E; Turney CSM; Golledge NR; Wilmshurst JM; McGlone MS; Hogg AG; Li B; Thomas ZA; Roberts R; Jones RT; Palmer J; Flett V; de Wet G; Hutchinson DK; Lipson MJ; Fenwick P; Hines BR; Binetti U; Fogwill CJ, 2019, 'Pleistocene glacial history of the New Zealand subantarctic islands', Climate of the Past, 15, pp. 423 - 448, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-423-2019

Dougherty AJ; Thomas ZA; Fogwill C; Hogg A; Palmer J; Rainsley E; Williams AN; Ulm S; Rogers K; Jones BG; Turney C, 2019, 'Redating the earliest evidence of the mid-Holocene relative sea-level highstand in Australia and implications for global sea-level rise', PLoS ONE, 14, pp. e0218430 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218430

Hogg AG; Heaton TJ; Ramsey CB; Boswijk G; Palmer J; Turney CSM; Southon J; Gumbley W, 2019, 'The Influence of Calibration Curve Construction and Composition on the Accuracy and Precision of Radiocarbon Wiggle-Matching of Tree Rings, Illustrated by Southern Hemisphere Atmospheric Data Sets from AD 1500–1950', Radiocarbon, 61, pp. 1265 - 1291, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2019.42

Allen KJ; Brookhouse M; French BJ; Nichols SC; Dahl B; Norrie D; Prior LD; Palmer J; Bowman DJMS, 2019, 'Two climate-sensitive tree-ring chronologies from Arnhem Land, monsoonal Australia', Austral Ecology, 44, pp. 581 - 596, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.12699

Hogg AG; Wilson CJN; Lowe DJ; Turney CSM; White P; Lorrey AM; Manning SW; Palmer J; Bury S; Brown J; Southon J; Petchey F, 2019, 'Wiggle-match radiocarbon dating of the Taupo eruption', Nature Communications, 10, pp. 1 - 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12532-8

Büntgen U; Wacker L; Galván JD; Arnold S; Arseneault D; Baillie M; Beer J; Bernabei M; Bleicher N; Boswijk G; Bräuning A; Carrer M; Ljungqvist FC; Cherubini P; Christl M; Christie DA; Clark PW; Cook ER; D’Arrigo R; Davi N; Eggertsson Ó; Esper J; Fowler AM; Gedalof Z; Gennaretti F; Grießinger J; Grissino-Mayer H; Grudd H; Gunnarson BE; Hantemirov R; Herzig F; Hessl A; Heussner KU; Jull AJT; Kukarskih V; Kirdyanov A; Kolář T; Krusic PJ; Kyncl T; Lara A; LeQuesne C; Linderholm HW; Loader NJ; Luckman B; Miyake F; Myglan VS; Nicolussi K; Oppenheimer C; Palmer J; Panyushkina I; Pederson N; Rybníček M; Schweingruber FH; Seim A; Sigl M; Churakova (Sidorova) O; Speer JH; Synal HA; Tegel W; Treydte K; Villalba R; Wiles G; Wilson R; Winship LJ; Wunder J; Yang B; Young GHF, 2018, 'Erratum to: Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE (Nature Communications, (2018), 9, 1, (3605), 10.1038/s41467-018-06036-0)', Nature Communications, 9, pp. 5399, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07636-6

Allen KJ; Villalba R; Lavergne A; Palmer JG; Cook EC; Fenwick P; Drew DM; Turney CSM; Baker PJ, 2018, 'A comparison of some simple methods used to detect unstable temperature responses in tree-ring chronologies', Dendrochronologia, 48, pp. 52 - 73, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2018.02.002

Haines HA; Gadd PS; Palmer J; Olley JM; Hua Q; Heijnis H, 2018, 'A new method for dating tree-rings in trees with faint, indeterminate ring boundaries using the Itrax core scanner', Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 497, pp. 234 - 243, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.02.025

Cook BI; Williams AP; Smerdon JE; Palmer J; Cook ER; Stahle DW; Coats S, 2018, 'Cold Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures During the Late Sixteenth-Century North American Megadrought', Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 8, pp. 360 - 360, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2018JD029323

Thomas ZA; Turney CSM; Palmer JG; Lloydd S; Klaricich JNL; Hogg A, 2018, 'Extending the observational record to provide new insights into invasive alien species in a coastal dune environment of New Zealand', Applied Geography, 98, pp. 100 - 109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2018.07.006

Langridge RM; Howarth JD; Cox SC; Palmer J; Sutherland R, 2018, 'Frontal fault location and most recent earthquake timing for the Alpine Fault at Whataroa, Westland, New Zealand', New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 61, pp. 329 - 340, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2018.1509878

Turney CSM; Palmer J; Maslin MA; Hogg A; Fogwill CJ; Southon J; Fenwick P; Helle G; Wilmshurst JM; McGlone M; Ramsey CB; Thomas ZX; Lipson M; Beaven B; Jones RT; Andrews O; Hua Q, 2018, 'Global Peak in Atmospheric Radiocarbon Provides a Potential Definition for the Onset of the Anthropocene Epoch in 1965', Scientific Reports, 8, pp. 1 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-20970-5

Palmer JG; Turney CSM; Fogwill C; School of Biological E; Environmental Sciences UONSW; Fenwick P; Thomas Z; Lipson M; Jones RT; Beavan B; Richardson SJ; Wilmshurst JM, 2018, 'Growth response of an invasive alien species to climate variations on subantarctic Campbell Island', New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 42, pp. 31 - 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.20417/nzjecol.42.2

Allen KJ; Cook ER; Evans R; Francey R; Buckley BM; Palmer JG; Peterson MJ; Baker PJ, 2018, 'Lack of cool, not warm, extremes distinguishes late 20th Century climate in 979-year Tasmanian summer temperature reconstruction', Environmental Research Letters, 13, pp. 034041 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaafd7

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