Characterizing drought in terms of changes in the precipitation–runoff relationship: a case study of   the Loess Plateau, China

Zhang, Yuan; Feng, Xiaoming; Wang, Xiaofeng; Fu, Bojie

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-1749-2018

Articles | Volume 22, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-1749-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-1749-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 3

Research article

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09 Mar 2018

Research article |

| 09 Mar 2018

Characterizing drought in terms of changes in the precipitation–runoff relationship: a case study of the Loess Plateau, China

Yuan Zhang, Xiaoming Feng, Xiaofeng Wang, and Bojie Fu

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'review for hess-2017-261', Anonymous Referee #1, 22 Jun 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to anonymous Referee #1', Yuan Zhang, 05 Aug 2017
RC2: 'Review for Hess-2017-261', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Jul 2017
- AC2: 'Reply to anonymous Referee #2', Yuan Zhang, 05 Aug 2017

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

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by Editor and Referees) (18 Aug 2017) by Stefan Uhlenbrook

AR by Yuan Zhang on behalf of the Authors (11 Sep 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (31 Oct 2017) by Stefan Uhlenbrook

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (16 Nov 2017) by Stefan Uhlenbrook

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (08 Feb 2018) by Stefan Uhlenbrook

AR by Yuan Zhang on behalf of the Authors (13 Feb 2018) Manuscript

Short summary

We characterized drought by linking climate anomalies with the change in precipitation–runoff relationships in China's Loess Plateau, where drought is of major concern for revegetation. Multi-year drought causes a change in the precipitation–runoff relationship in this water limited area. The drought causing a decrease in runoff ratio is vital to ecosystem management. The revegetation in the Loess Plateau should live with the spatially varied drought.