Figure 3
Long-term temporal evolutions of flood timings and their influential factors for 13 hotspots with concentrate index > 0.7. Solid lines show the median timing over the entire hotspot: Green: timing of the observed floods; purple: 7-day maximum precipitation; orange: snow melting indicator and blue: timing of the calculated maximum soil moisture excess (SME). All data were subjected to a 10-year weighted moving average filter. The shaded bands indicate the timing variability within the year (± 0.5 standard deviations). Vertical axes show month of the year (note different starting months in these panels). The precipitation and SME data were started from 1979 in south africa as the CPC precipitation data was started from 1979.
