“…Therefore, the sensitivity of individual proxies to precipitation anomalies has evident regional differences between seasons. In addition, many new proxies achieved in recent years are not utilized in the above-mentioned four gridded reconstructions in monsoon Asia (e.g., Shah et al, 2007;Sass-Klaassen et al, 2007;Arsalani et al, 2018Arsalani et al, , 2015Chen et al, 2016;Zhang et al, 2017;Pumijumnong et al, 2020;Xu et al, 2015;Buckley et al, 2017;Ukhvatkina et al, 2021;Akkemik et al, 2020;Kostyakova et al, 2017;Kucherov, 2010;Xu et al, 2013;Borgaonkar et al, 2010). All of these motivate us to initiate this new gridded (2.5 • × 2.5 • ) reconstruction effort on seasonal to annual precipitation variability over the past 300 years in the whole of Asia, including the western and northern Asia not covered in the four gridded datasets developed in previous studies (Cook et al, 2010a;Feng et al, 2013;Shi et al, 2018Shi et al, , 2017.…”