On the drought in the Balearic Islands during the hydrological year 2015–2016

Ramis, Climent; Romero, Romualdo; Homar, Víctor; Alonso, Sergio; Jansà, Agustí; Amengual, Arnau

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-2351-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-2351-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-2351-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 12

Research article

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21 Dec 2017

Research article |

| 21 Dec 2017

On the drought in the Balearic Islands during the hydrological year 2015–2016

Climent Ramis, Romualdo Romero, Víctor Homar, Sergio Alonso, Agustí Jansà, and Arnau Amengual

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Final revised paper (published on 21 Dec 2017)
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RC1: 'Review of “On The Drought In The Balearic Islands During The Hydrological Year 2015-2016” by Ramis et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Jul 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to the comments of referee 1', Climent Ramis, 26 Sep 2017
RC2: 'Comments on the MS', José A. Guijarro, 08 Aug 2017
- AC2: 'Reply to the comments of referee 2', Climent Ramis, 26 Sep 2017

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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) (27 Sep 2017) by Vassiliki Kotroni

AR by Climent Ramis on behalf of the Authors (16 Oct 2017) Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (27 Oct 2017) by Vassiliki Kotroni

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (06 Nov 2017)

RR by Jan Polcher (09 Nov 2017)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (12 Nov 2017) by Vassiliki Kotroni

AR by Climent Ramis on behalf of the Authors (14 Nov 2017) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

During the hydrological year 2015–2016 (September to August) a severe drought affected the Balearic Islands, with substantial consequences on water availability. In this paper we analyze this anomalous episode in terms of the corresponding water balance. It is shown that the drought was the result of a lack of winter precipitation, the lowest in the last 43 years. In several analyzed meteorological stations, evaporation was greater than precipitation during all the months of the year.