Concurrent wet and dry hydrological  extremes at the global scale

De Luca, Paolo; Messori, Gabriele; Wilby, Robert L.; Mazzoleni, Maurizio; Di Baldassarre, Giuliano

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-251-2020

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Hydro-climate dynamics, analytics and predictability

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10 Mar 2020

Research article |

| 10 Mar 2020

Concurrent wet and dry hydrological extremes at the global scale

Paolo De Luca, Gabriele Messori, Robert L. Wilby, Maurizio Mazzoleni, and Giuliano Di Baldassarre

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RC1: 'An important paper with only a few logical weak points', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Oct 2019
- AC1: 'Responses to Referee (1)', Paolo De Luca, 21 Jan 2020
RC2: 'REF: ESD-2019-27 TITLE: Concurrent wet and dry hydrological extremes at the global scale AUTHORS: De Luca P, Messori G, Wilby RL, Mazzoleni M, Di Baldassarre G', Anonymous Referee #2, 30 Dec 2019
- AC2: 'Responses to Referee (2)', Paolo De Luca, 21 Jan 2020

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (31 Jan 2020) by Valerio Lucarini

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (22 Feb 2020) by Valerio Lucarini

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We show that floods and droughts can co-occur in time across remote regions on the globe and introduce metrics that can help in quantifying concurrent wet and dry hydrological extremes. We then link wet–dry extremes to major modes of climate variability (i.e. ENSO, PDO, and AMO) and provide their spatial patterns. Such concurrent extreme hydrological events may pose risks to regional hydropower production and agricultural yields.