Articles | Volume 24, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-2043-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-2043-2020
Research article
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23 Apr 2020
Research article |  | 23 Apr 2020

A methodology to estimate flow duration curves at partially ungauged basins

Elena Ridolfi, Hemendra Kumar, and András Bárdossy

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (16 Aug 2019) by Stacey Archfield
AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (02 Oct 2019)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (18 Oct 2019) by Stacey Archfield
RR by William Farmer (28 Oct 2019)
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (25 Nov 2019) by Stacey Archfield
AR by Lorena Grabowski on behalf of the Authors (13 Feb 2020)  Author's response
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (27 Feb 2020) by Stacey Archfield
RR by William Farmer (06 Mar 2020)
ED: Publish as is (12 Mar 2020) by Stacey Archfield

Post-review adjustments

AA: Author's adjustment | EA: Editor approval
AA by András Bárdossy on behalf of the Authors (17 Apr 2020)   Author's adjustment   Manuscript
EA: Adjustments approved (21 Apr 2020) by Stacey Archfield
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Short summary
The paper presents a new, simple and model-free methodology to estimate the streamflow at partially gauged basins, given the precipitation gauged at another basin. We show that the FDC is not a characteristic of the basin only, but of both the basin and the weather. Because of the dependence on the climate, discharge data at the target site are here retrieved using the Antecedent Precipitation Index (API) of the donor site as it represents in a streamflow-like way the precipitation of the basin.