Near-0&thinsp;°C surface temperature and precipitation type patterns across Canada

Mekis, Eva; Stewart, Ronald E.; Theriault, Julie M.; Kochtubajda, Bohdan; Bonsal, Barrie R.; Liu, Zhuo

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1741-2020

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09 Apr 2020

Research article |

| 09 Apr 2020

Near-0 °C surface temperature and precipitation type patterns across Canada

Eva Mekis, Ronald E. Stewart, Julie M. Theriault, Bohdan Kochtubajda, Barrie R. Bonsal, and Zhuo Liu

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Final revised paper (published on 09 Apr 2020)
Preprint (discussion started on 12 Jun 2019)

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

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RC1: 'Review of man. hess-2019-297', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 Jun 2019
- AC1: 'Responses to Reviewer 1 Comments', Eva Mekis, 05 Nov 2019
RC2: 'Review of Mekis et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 09 Jul 2019
- AC2: 'Responses to Reviewer 2 Comments', Eva Mekis, 05 Nov 2019
RC3: 'Review of the manuscript entitled “Assessment of near 0°C temperature and precipitation characteristics across Canada” by Mekis et al. 2019', Anonymous Referee #3, 09 Jul 2019
- AC3: 'Responses to Reviewer 3 Comments', Eva Mekis, 05 Nov 2019
RC4: 'Review of HESS 2019-297', Paul Whitfield, 07 Aug 2019
- AC4: 'Responses to Reviewer 4 Comments', Eva Mekis, 05 Nov 2019

Peer-review completion

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

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (23 Nov 2019) by Markus Hrachowitz

AR by Eva Mekis on behalf of the Authors (30 Dec 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (09 Jan 2020) by Markus Hrachowitz

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (10 Jan 2020)

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (14 Feb 2020)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (17 Feb 2020) by Markus Hrachowitz

AR by Eva Mekis on behalf of the Authors (27 Feb 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (03 Mar 2020) by Markus Hrachowitz

AR by Eva Mekis on behalf of the Authors (07 Mar 2020)

Short summary

This article provides a Canada-wide analysis of near-0°C temperature conditions (±2°C) using hourly surface temperature and precipitation type observations from 92 locations for the 1981–2011 period. Higher annual occurrences were found in Atlantic Canada, although high values also occur in other regions. Trends of most indicators show little or no change despite a systematic warming over Canada. A higher than expected tendency for near-0°C conditions was also found at some stations.