Signatures of human intervention – or not? Downstream intensification of hydrological drought along a large Central Asian river: the individual roles of climate variability and land use change

Roodari, Artemis; Hrachowitz, Markus; Hassanpour, Farzad; Yaghoobzadeh, Mostafa

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-1943-2021

Articles | Volume 25, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-1943-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-1943-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 25, issue 4

Research article

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13 Apr 2021

Research article |

| 13 Apr 2021

Signatures of human intervention – or not? Downstream intensification of hydrological drought along a large Central Asian river: the individual roles of climate variability and land use change

Artemis Roodari, Markus Hrachowitz, Farzad Hassanpour, and Mostafa Yaghoobzadeh

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RC1: 'Signatures of human intervention – or not? Downstream intensification of hydrological drought along a large Central Asian River: the individual roles of climate variability and land use change', Anonymous Referee #1, 31 Aug 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to Referee #1', Artemis Roodari, 27 Nov 2020
RC2: 'Referee comment related to Signatures of human intervention – or not? Downstream intensification of hydrological drought along a large Central Asian River: the individual roles of climate variability and land use change', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Oct 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to the comments from Referee #2', Artemis Roodari, 27 Nov 2020

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (27 Nov 2020) by Hilary McMillan

AR by Artemis Roodari on behalf of the Authors (08 Jan 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (22 Jan 2021) by Hilary McMillan

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (05 Mar 2021) by Hilary McMillan

Short summary

In a combined data analysis and modeling study in the transboundary Helmand River basin, we analyzed spatial patterns of drought and changes therein based on the drought indices as well as on absolute water deficits. Overall the results illustrate that flow deficits and the associated droughts clearly reflect the dynamic interplay between temporally varying regional differences in hydro-meteorological variables together with subtle and temporally varying effects linked to human intervention.