Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-379-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-379-2015
Research article
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21 Jan 2015
Research article |  | 21 Jan 2015

Climate and hydrological variability: the catchment filtering role

I. Andrés-Doménech, R. García-Bartual, A. Montanari, and J. B. Marco

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (29 Nov 2014) by Sabine Attinger
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ED: Publish as is (25 Dec 2014) by Sabine Attinger
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Short summary
Does climate variability necessarily imply hydrological variability? This paper analyses the catchment filtering role by analytically deriving the annual maximum peak flow frequency distribution based on realistic hypotheses about the rainfall process and the rainfall-runoff transformation. Depending on changes in the annual number of rainfall events, the catchment filtering role is particularly significant. Results also largely depend on the return period considered.