Interactive comment on “ On the Flood Peak Distributions over China ” by L .

The authors present an extensive study on exploring flood peak distributions in terms of stationarity, seasonality, scaling property, spatial heterogeneity and the effects of landfalling tropical cyclones across the China. Their results are mainly based on several statistical methods (e.g. Pettitt’s test, Mann-Kendall test, GEV distribution, etc.) using annual maximum peak discharge from over 1000 gages with a record of at least 50 years. To my knowledge, their study is the first to analyze the characteristics of annual maximum flood peaks on a nation-wide scale in China, highlighting the importance of both streamflow dataset and treating them not only as numerical values but as real world physical events.