The potential of historical hydrology in Switzerland

Wetter, Oliver

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-5781-2017

Articles | Volume 21, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-5781-2017

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Floods and their changes in historical times – a European...

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-5781-2017

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Articles | Volume 21, issue 11

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23 Nov 2017

Research article |

| 23 Nov 2017

The potential of historical hydrology in Switzerland

Oliver Wetter

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Final revised paper (published on 23 Nov 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 04 Aug 2017)

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

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RC1: 'See coments and pdf', Inês Amorim, 31 Aug 2017
- RC2: 'just a small observation', Silvia Enzi, 18 Sep 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to the referees', Oliver Wetter, 28 Sep 2017
- AC2: 'Reply to the referees', Oliver Wetter, 28 Sep 2017
RC3: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #3, 25 Sep 2017
- AC3: 'Reply to the referees', Oliver Wetter, 28 Sep 2017

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (15 Oct 2017) by Andrea Kiss

AR by Oliver Wetter on behalf of the Authors (17 Oct 2017) Manuscript

Short summary

This paper aims to describe the strengths and weaknesses of the available historical hydrological evidence, to shed light on the existing basic methodologies leading to long-term frequency, seasonality and magnitude reconstructions of pre-instrumental hydrological events, to discuss the comparability of reconstructed pre-instrumental flood events compared to current events and to provide an outlook for future analysis with a focus on the situation in Switzerland.