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Table 2 Historical climate reconstructions used in this study. PDSI = Palmer Drought Severity Index; ENSO = El NiƱoāˆ’Southern Oscillation; PDO = Pacific Decadal Oscillation.

From: Historical Fire-Climate Relationships in Contrasting Interior Pacific Northwest Forest Types

Climate reconstruction

Record

Source

Precipitation

1706 to 1978

Garfin and Hughes 1996

Summer temperature

1600 to1983

Briffa et al. 1992

PDSI

400 to 2003

Cook et al. 2004

ENSO

1301 to 2005

Li et al. 2013

PDO

1565 to 2004

Dā€™Arrigo and Wilson 2006