ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We appreciate efforts and commitment to the long term collection of high
quality records in Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed by researchers
and technicians in the US Agricultural Research Service. The research
was funded by the NSF funded ND EPSCoR (NSF grant #IIA-135466) to THM
and by the Canadian Natural Science and Engineering Research Council
post-doctoral fellowship to KR. We would like to thank two anonymous
reviewers for their constructive comments on an earler version of this
paper.
Data Availability. The data that support the findings of this
study are openly available from the anonymous ftp site
ftp://ftp.nwrc.ars.usda.gov/publications/wrr/rme‐25yr‐data maintained by
the USDA Agricultural Research Service, Northwest Watershed Research
Center, in Boise, Idaho (Reba et al., 2011a). The data for climatic
teleconnection patterns were downloaded from the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration Earth System Research Laboratory (NOAA)
website (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov).