Paleo-hydrologic reconstruction of 400 years of past flows at a weekly time step for major rivers of Western Canada

Slaughter, Andrew R.; Razavi, Saman

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-231-2020

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05 Feb 2020

Data description paper |

| 05 Feb 2020

Paleo-hydrologic reconstruction of 400 years of past flows at a weekly time step for major rivers of Western Canada

Andrew R. Slaughter and Saman Razavi

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RC1: 'Paleo-hydrologic reconstruction of 400 years of past flows at a weekly time step for major rivers of Western Canada', Anonymous Referee #1, 11 Oct 2019
- AC1: 'Author response', Andrew Slaughter, 12 Nov 2019
RC2: 'Review comments for “Paleo-hydrologic reconstruction of 400 years of past flows at a weekly time step for major rivers of Western Canada” by Slaughter and Razavi', Anonymous Referee #2, 18 Oct 2019
- AC2: 'Author response', Andrew Slaughter, 12 Nov 2019

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ED: Publish as is (06 Jan 2020) by Chris DeBeer

AR by Andrew Slaughter on behalf of the Authors (11 Jan 2020)

Short summary

Water management faces the challenge of non-stationarity in future flows. To extend flow datasets beyond the gauging data, this study presents a method of generating an ensemble of weekly flows from tree-ring reconstructed flows to represent uncertainty that can overcome certain long-standing data challenges with paleo-reconstruction. An ensemble of 500 flow time series were generated for the four sub-basins of the Saskatchewan River basin, Canada, for the period 1600–2001.