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Figure 1: Sierra Nevada 1 April snow water equivalent reconstruction (1500–1980).

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by a National Science Foundation CAREER grant (AGS-1349942), a grant from the Department of the Interior Southwest Climate Science Center (US Geological Survey; G13AC00339) and a Swiss National Science Foundation grant (P300P2_154543). We are grateful to Kevin Anchukaitis for discussion and useful input.

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  1. Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, 85721, Arizona, USA

    Soumaya Belmecheri, Flurin Babst & Valerie Trouet

  2. NOAA/National Centers for Environmental Information, Paleoclimatology Group, Boulder, 80305, Colorado, USA

    Eugene R. Wahl

  3. Department of Geosciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 72701, Arkansas, USA

    David W. Stahle

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S.B., F.B. and V.T. conceived and designed the study, and wrote the Correspondence with input from E.R.W. and D.W.S. E.R.W. and D.W.S. contributed data and S.B. and F.B. performed the analyses with input from V.T. All authors contributed to the interpretation of the data set and discussion.

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Belmecheri, S., Babst, F., Wahl, E. et al. Multi-century evaluation of Sierra Nevada snowpack. Nature Clim Change 6, 2–3 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2809

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