“…Based on the accurately dated, continuous, high-resolution, precisely measured ringwidths, and sensitive relations to climate and hydrology, the sampling and replication of tree rings have been widely applied in reconstructing past streamflow [9,11,12]. In recent years, tree-ring based hydrometeorological reconstruction have been developed for many areas of China, such as the Heihe River [13][14][15], Tongtian River [16], Xinjiang [17][18][19], and the Yellow River Basin [10,20].…”