Evaluation of a combined drought indicator and its potential for agricultural drought prediction in southern Spain

Jiménez-Donaire, María del Pilar; Tarquis, Ana; Giráldez, Juan Vicente

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-21-2020

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03 Jan 2020

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| 03 Jan 2020

Evaluation of a combined drought indicator and its potential for agricultural drought prediction in southern Spain

María del Pilar Jiménez-Donaire, Ana Tarquis, and Juan Vicente Giráldez

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

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RC1: 'Important questions unanswered', Anonymous Referee #1, 25 May 2019
- AC1: 'response to referee 1', Pilar Jimenez-Donaire, 15 Jul 2019
RC2: 'First revision of the manuscript nhess-2019-135', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Jun 2019
- AC2: 'response to referee 2', Pilar Jimenez-Donaire, 15 Jul 2019
RC3: 'First revision of the manuscript 2019-135', Anonymous Referee #3, 07 Jun 2019
- AC3: 'response to referee 3', Pilar Jimenez-Donaire, 15 Jul 2019

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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) (07 Sep 2019) by Jonathan Rizzi

AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (02 Oct 2019) Author's response

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (09 Oct 2019) by Jonathan Rizzi

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (18 Oct 2019)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (30 Oct 2019) by Jonathan Rizzi

AR by Pilar Jimenez-Donaire on behalf of the Authors (06 Nov 2019) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

A new combined drought indicator (CDI) is proposed that integrates rainfall, soil moisture and vegetation dynamics. The performance of this indicator was evaluated against crop damage data from agricultural insurance schemes in five different areas in SW Spain. Results show that this indicator was able to predict important droughts in 2004–2005 and 2011–2012, marked by crop damage of between 70 % and 95 % of the total insured area. This opens important applications for improving insurance schemes.