Convective rainfall in a dry climate: relations with synoptic systems and flash-flood generation in the Dead Sea region

Belachsen, Idit; Marra, Francesco; Peleg, Nadav; Morin, Efrat

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-5165-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-5165-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-5165-2017

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12 Oct 2017

Research article |

| 12 Oct 2017

Convective rainfall in a dry climate: relations with synoptic systems and flash-flood generation in the Dead Sea region

Idit Belachsen, Francesco Marra, Nadav Peleg, and Efrat Morin

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RC1: 'Review of HESS-2017-235: Convective rainfall in dry climate: relations with synoptic systems and flash-flood generation in the Dead Sea region by Belachsen et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 26 May 2017
- AC1: 'Response to referee #1', Idit Belachsen, 27 Jul 2017
RC2: 'Convective rainfall in dry climate: relations with synoptic systems and flash-flood generation in the Dead Sea region', Anonymous Referee #2, 30 May 2017
- AC2: 'Response to referee #2', Idit Belachsen, 27 Jul 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by Editor) (01 Aug 2017) by Florian Pappenberger

AR by Idit Belachsen on behalf of the Authors (10 Aug 2017)

ED: Publish as is (18 Aug 2017) by Florian Pappenberger

AR by Idit Belachsen on behalf of the Authors (27 Aug 2017) Manuscript

Short summary

Spatiotemporal rainfall patterns in arid environments are not well-known. We derived properties of convective rain cells over the arid Dead Sea region from a long-term radar archive. We found differences in cell properties between synoptic systems and between flash-flood and non-flash-flood events. Large flash floods are associated with slow rain cells, directed downstream with the main catchment axis. Results from this work can be used for hydrological models and stochastic storm simulations.