A systematic assessment of drought termination in the United Kingdom

Parry, Simon; Wilby, Robert L.; Prudhomme, Christel; Wood, Paul J.

doi:10.5194/hess-20-4265-2016

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A systematic assessment of drought termination in the United Kingdom

Simon Parry, Robert L. Wilby, Christel Prudhomme, and Paul J. Wood

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Short summary

This paper identifies periods of recovery from drought in 52 river flow records from the UK between 1883 and 2013. The approach detects 459 events that vary in space and time. This large dataset allows individual events to be compared with others in the historical record. The ability to objectively appraise contemporary events against the historical record has not previously been possible, and may allow water managers to prepare for a range of outcomes at the end of a drought.