Table 3. Two measures of dissimilarity between actual vegetation and REVEALS estimates or pollen proportion.

	dissimilarity A						dissimilarity B
	sum of simple differences						sum of quadratic differences/sum of quadratic residuals
		step 1		step 2	step 3			step 1		step 2	step 3
	pollen	S3MS	S4MS	S4MSR	S4MS_P	S4MSR_P	pollen	S3MS	S4MS	S4MSR	S4MS_P	S4MSR_P
Abies	−0.11	−0.33	−0.12	−0.1	−0.08	−0.09	3.4	6.7	5.4	9.7	4.3	4.3
Acer	0.03	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	59.1	5.1	5.3	1.8	2.2	2.5
Alnus	−0.5	0.01	−0.02	0	−0.01	0	4.3	1.6	1.3	1.2	1.2	1.1
Betula	−0.53	0.02	−0.03	−0.05	−0.01	−0.02	6.3	3.8	2.2	2.2	2.2	2.1
Carpinus	0.01	0.04	0.04	0	–0.01	0	7.4	152.9	106.6	2.4	2.0	2.3
Cerealia	2.43	−0.38	−0.11	−0.22	−0.03	0.03	4626.4	2.4	1.5	1.5	1.3	1.3
Corylus	−0.08	0.01	0	−0.01	0.00	−0.01	4.3	6.7	2.4	1.5	2.6	2.7
Fagus	0.01	−0.01	0	−0.04	0.01	−0.01	1.4	1.2	1.3	1.1	1.4	1.3
Fraxinus	0.03	0.04	0.04	0	0.00	0	41.7	382.5	123.3	2.0	3.0	2.2
Picea	1.01	0.15	0.25	0.2	0.00	0.06	10.8	1.1	1.1	1.4	1.1	1.1
Pinus	−1.86	−0.06	−0.36	−0.08	0.04	−0.01	31.3	1.2	3.1	1.1	1.2	1.0
Pla_lanc	−0.03	0.01	0	−0.01	0.00	−0.01	2.5	3.5	1.8	1.4	1.9	2.0
Poaceae	−0.44	0.22	0.07	0.33	0.09	0.09	21.9	5.1	3.1	107.4	3.0	4.4
Quercus	0.12	0.26	0.24	−0.03	0.01	−0.03	19.7	274.7	131.8	1.1	1.0	1.2
Salix	−0.06	−0.01	−0.01	−0.01	−0.01	−0.01	3.5	2.0	2.5	2.9	2.4	2.6
Tilia	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.00	0.01	4.5	42.0	15.7	4.7	2.5	3.1
Ulmus	−0.03	−0.01	−0.01	0	0.00	0	26.8	64.9	63.3	24.6	31.3	34.8
sum of absolute values	7.31	1.6	1.33	1.09	0.32	0.38	4875.1	957.2	471.7	168.0	64.5	70.2

Note the improvement of sums against previous steps. Abbreviations code the REVEALS settings: S - wind speed, R - radius of local taxa decreased to 1 m, _P - pollen adjusted.