peer review report 2 on comparing trends in hydrometeorological average and extreme data sets around the world at different time scales

Figure6ismisleadingbecauseonemaythinkthattherenotrendsinAfrica,EuropeandAsia,whiletheabsenceoftrends reflectstheabsenceofdata,asdrawninFigure1c.TheauthorsshouldconsiderremovingFigure6orat

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DOI of the original article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2015.12.061

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2016.11.033

Figure6ismisleadingbecauseonemaythinkthattherenotrendsinAfrica,EuropeandAsia,whiletheabsenceoftrends

reflectstheabsenceofdata,asdrawninFigure1c.TheauthorsshouldconsiderremovingFigure6oratleastaddanoteto

warnreaders

Figure7isdifficulttoreadandshouldbereworked

Uptoline402,thepaperwasveryfactualandnohydrometeorologicalinterpretationofthetrendswereprovided.Iwas

thussurprisedtoreadsomeinterpretations,fordischargeonly,intheconclusionfromlines402to407.Theauthorshave

twooptions:removelines402–407orprovidephysicalinterpretationforallvariables(andmuchearlierinthedocument

thanintheconclusion)

Lines41–418areabitpuzzlinglocatedinthelastparagraphoftheconclusion.Thisissueshouldhavebeenraisedinthe

methodology(Section2.4),ifatall

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