Trends and regime shifts in climatic conditions and river runoff in Estonia during 1951–2015

Jaagus, Jaak; Sepp, Mait; Tamm, Toomas; Järvet, Arvo; Mõisja, Kiira

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-963-2017

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03 Nov 2017

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| 03 Nov 2017

Trends and regime shifts in climatic conditions and river runoff in Estonia during 1951–2015

Jaak Jaagus, Mait Sepp, Toomas Tamm, Arvo Järvet, and Kiira Mõisja

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 31 Mar 2017
RC2: 'Review of the article "Trends and regime shifts in climatic conditions and river runoff in Estonia during 1951–2015"', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Apr 2017
AC1: 'Response to the reviewers’ questions and critical remarks', Jaak Jaagus, 09 Jun 2017

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

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (26 Jun 2017) by Anna Rutgersson

AR by Jaak Jaagus on behalf of the Authors (04 Aug 2017) Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (15 Aug 2017) by Anna Rutgersson

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (25 Aug 2017)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (27 Aug 2017)

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (28 Aug 2017) by Anna Rutgersson

AR by Jaak Jaagus on behalf of the Authors (08 Sep 2017) Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (19 Sep 2017) by Anna Rutgersson

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (20 Sep 2017)

ED: Publish as is (20 Sep 2017) by Anna Rutgersson

AR by Jaak Jaagus on behalf of the Authors (29 Sep 2017)

Short summary

Trends and regime shifts in climatic and hydrological parameters are analysed in Estonia during 1951–2015. The most important finding was the regime shift in the majority of parameters since the winter 1988/1989. The intensity of westerly circulation described by the NAO and AO indices increased, winter mean air temperature and precipitation also increased, and snow cover duration decreased. Consequently, specific runoff of rivers increased in January, February and March but decreased in April.