| Long-term aridity changes in the western United States ER Cook, CA Woodhouse, CM Eakin, DM Meko, DW Stahle Science 306 (5698), 1015-1018, 2004 | 1563 | 2004 |
| Drought reconstructions for the continental United States ER Cook, DM Meko, DW Stahle, MK Cleaveland Journal of Climate 12 (4), 1145-1162, 1999 | 1043 | 1999 |
| Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality AP Williams, CD Allen, AK Macalady, D Griffin, CA Woodhouse, DM Meko, ... Nature climate change 3 (3), 292, 2013 | 968 | 2013 |
| The'segment length curse'in long tree-ring chronology development for palaeoclimatic studies ER Cook, KR Briffa, DM Meko, DA Graybill, G Funkhouser The Holocene 5 (2), 229-237, 1995 | 614 | 1995 |
| North–south precipitation patterns in western North America on interannual-to-decadal timescales MD Dettinger, DR Cayan, HF Diaz, DM Meko Journal of Climate 11 (12), 3095-3111, 1998 | 419 | 1998 |
| Updated streamflow reconstructions for the Upper Colorado River basin CA Woodhouse, ST Gray, DM Meko Water Resources Research 42 (5), 2006 | 345 | 2006 |
| Medieval drought in the upper Colorado River Basin DM Meko, CA Woodhouse, CA Baisan, T Knight, JJ Lukas, MK Hughes, ... Geophysical Research Letters 34 (10), 2007 | 324 | 2007 |
| Tree‐ring data document 16th century megadrought over North America DW Stahle, ER Cook, MK Cleaveland, MD Therrell, DM Meko, ... Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 81 (12), 121-125, 2000 | 321 | 2000 |
| A 1,200-year perspective of 21st century drought in southwestern North America CA Woodhouse, DM Meko, GM MacDonald, DW Stahle, ER Cook Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (50), 21283-21288, 2010 | 264 | 2010 |
| THE TREE‐RING RECORD OF SEVERE SUSTAINED DROUGHT1 D Meko, CW Stockton, WR Boggess JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 31 (5), 789-801, 1995 | 259 | 1995 |
| SACRAMENTO RIVER FLOW RECONSTRUCTED TO A.D. 869 FROM TREE RINGS1 DM Meko, MD Therrell, CH Baisan, MK Hughes JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 37 (4), 1029-1039, 2001 | 252 | 2001 |
| Evidence of a 22-year rhythm of drought in the western United States related to the Hale solar cycle since the 17th century JM Mitchell, CW Stockton, DM Meko Solar-terrestrial influences on weather and climate, 125-143, 1979 | 243 | 1979 |
| TREE‐RING RECONSTRUCTION OF UPPER GILA RWER DISCHARGE1 D Meko, DA Graybill JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 31 (4), 605-616, 1995 | 218 | 1995 |
| A new assessment of possible solar and lunar forcing of the bidecadal drought rhythm in the western United States ER Cook, DM Meko, CW Stockton Journal of Climate 10 (6), 1343-1356, 1997 | 216 | 1997 |
| Spatiotemporal drought variability in the Mediterranean over the last 900 years BI Cook, KJ Anchukaitis, R Touchan, DM Meko, ER Cook Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 121 (5), 2060-2074, 2016 | 188 | 2016 |
| Drought recurrence in the Great Plains as reconstructedfrom long-term tree-ring records CW Stockton, DM Meko Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology 22 (1), 17-29, 1983 | 154 | 1983 |
| Assessing the risk of persistent drought using climate model simulations and paleoclimate data TR Ault, JE Cole, JT Overpeck, GT Pederson, DM Meko Journal of Climate 27 (20), 7529-7549, 2014 | 153 | 2014 |
| Spatial patterns of tree-growth anomalies in the United States and southeastern Canada D Meko, ER Cook, DW Stahle, CW Stockton, MK Hughes Journal of Climate 6 (9), 1773-1786, 1993 | 150 | 1993 |
| Spatiotemporal drought variability in northwestern Africa over the last nine centuries R Touchan, KJ Anchukaitis, DM Meko, M Sabir, S Attalah, A Aloui Climate Dynamics 37 (1-2), 237-252, 2011 | 144 | 2011 |
| A long-term history of drought occurrence in western United States as inferred from tree rings CW Stockton, DM Meko Weatherwise 28 (6), 244-249, 1975 | 140 | 1975 |