Using paleoclimate reconstructions to analyse hydrological epochs associated with Pacific decadal variability

Zhang, Lanying; Kuczera, George; Kiem, Anthony S.; Willgoose, Garry

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-6399-2018

Articles | Volume 22, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-6399-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-6399-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 12

Research article

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10 Dec 2018

Research article |

| 10 Dec 2018

Using paleoclimate reconstructions to analyse hydrological epochs associated with Pacific decadal variability

Lanying Zhang, George Kuczera, Anthony S. Kiem, and Garry Willgoose

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Final revised paper (published on 10 Dec 2018)
Preprint (discussion started on 23 Apr 2018)

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

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RC1: 'Review comments for hess-2018-173', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 May 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to 'Review comments for hess-2018-173', Anonymous Referee #1', Lanying Zhang, 25 Jun 2018
RC2: 'HESS-2018-173', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Jun 2018
- AC2: 'Reply to Referee #2', Lanying Zhang, 29 Aug 2018

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

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (14 Sep 2018) by Thomas Kjeldsen

AR by Lanying Zhang on behalf of the Authors (17 Oct 2018)

ED: Publish as is (22 Oct 2018) by Thomas Kjeldsen

AR by Lanying Zhang on behalf of the Authors (29 Oct 2018) Manuscript

Short summary

Analyses of run lengths of Pacific decadal variability (PDV) suggest that there is no significant difference between run lengths in positive and negative phases of PDV and that it is more likely than not that the PDV run length has been non-stationary in the past millennium. This raises concerns about whether variability seen in the instrumental record (the last ~100 years), or even in the shorter 300–400 year paleoclimate reconstructions, is representative of the full range of variability.