Asynchronous carbon assimilation and tree growth explains ring-width climate sensitivity of Eastern US temperature oaks

Mukund Palat Rao1, Arturo Pacheco-Solana2, Johanna Jensen3, Bar Oryan4, Milagros Rodriguez Caton5, Troy Nixon6, Caroline Leland4, Laia Andreu-Hayles7, Troy Magney8, Neil Pederson9, William J D'Andrea10, Natalie Boelman11, Roisin Commane12, Dorothy M Peteet13, Pierre Gentine14, Nicole K Davi4 and Kevin Lee Griffin11, (1)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, United States, (3)Columbia University, Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, New York, United States, (4)Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)nstituto Argentino Nivologia, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA), CCT-CONICET, Mendoza, Argentina, (6)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, New York, United States, (7)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, NY, United States, (8)University of California Davis, Department of Plant Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, (9)Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA, United States, (10)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (11)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observ., Palisades, NY, United States, (12)Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (13)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, (14)Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, NY, United States