Figure 7: Manzshir Hiid Spring precipitation reconstruction
(February through July). The solid black line indicates a smoothed reconstruction.
The blue line represents the meteorological data.
The reconstruction is for February through
July and also uses current year and following year ring-width indices for estimating
the seasonalized precipitation. The model explains 36% of the precipitation variation.
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