Figure 4

Tree-ring-based hydroclimatic records from the northwest (NW) Himalaya, India and Karakoram, northern Pakistan showing increased wetting in the 20^th century and recent decades. A- SPI2-May reconstruction (present study), B-tree-ring-based previous year August to current year July (pAcJ) precipitation for cold-arid Lahaul, NW Himalaya¹⁹, the data in A and B were normalized relative to the mean and standard deviation of the length of respective series and 40-year spline filtered; C- tree-ring δ¹⁸O based precipitation for Karakoram, northern Pakistan (Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: [Nature]¹⁸, copyright (2006). The data represent 150 year spline filter. The horizontal line is mean of reconstruction (A.D. 950–1990).