Historic hydrological droughts 1891–2015: systematic characterisation for a diverse set of catchments across the UK

Barker, Lucy J.; Hannaford, Jamie; Parry, Simon; Smith, Katie A.; Tanguy, Maliko; Prudhomme, Christel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4583-2019

Articles | Volume 23, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4583-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4583-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 11

Research article

|

15 Nov 2019

Research article |

| 15 Nov 2019

Historic hydrological droughts 1891–2015: systematic characterisation for a diverse set of catchments across the UK

Lucy J. Barker, Jamie Hannaford, Simon Parry, Katie A. Smith, Maliko Tanguy, and Christel Prudhomme

Download

Final revised paper (published on 15 Nov 2019)
Supplement to the final revised paper
Preprint (discussion started on 14 May 2019)
Supplement to the preprint

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

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

- Printer-friendly version

- Supplement

RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 26 Jun 2019
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Lucy Barker, 16 Jul 2019
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 16 Jul 2019
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Lucy Barker, 29 Jul 2019
SC1: 'Short comments on Barker et al hess-2019-2002', Gerry Spraggs, 21 Jul 2019
- AC3: 'Response', Lucy Barker, 05 Aug 2019

Peer-review completion

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

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by editor) (11 Aug 2019) by Uwe Ehret

AR by Lucy Barker on behalf of the Authors (30 Sep 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (01 Oct 2019) by Uwe Ehret

AR by Lucy Barker on behalf of the Authors (02 Oct 2019) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

It is important to understand historic droughts in order to plan and prepare for possible future events. In this study we use the standardised streamflow index for 1891–2015 to systematically identify, characterise and rank hydrological drought events for 108 near-natural UK catchments. Results show when and where the most severe events occurred and describe events of the early 20th century, providing catchment-scale detail important for both science and planning applications of the future.