Dear Dr Jana,

Your manuscript “Examining the relationship between intermediate scale soil moisture and terrestrial evaporation within a semi-arid grassland” has been subjected now to review by two reviewers. One of them recommended major revision and one of them minor revision.

The reviewers address various points important to be handled. For example, it is important to provide more background on the different evaporation models used in the analysis.

In your answer to the main points and detailed comments, please indicate how comments have been handled exactly, indicating also whether text has been deleted and what the position of newly included text blocks is. I am looking forward to the new version of the paper.

Best regards,

Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen – editor

Dear Dr Jana,

Your manuscript “Examining the relationship between intermediate scale soil moisture and terrestrial evaporation within a semi-arid grassland” has been subjected now again to review by two reviewers. They recommend acceptation of the manuscript.

Going through the paper myself, I think that the following technical corrections still should be made:
P10, L7: Skip one space between sub- and periods.
Appendix A: Various symbols are not explained like for example gamma, delta (Eq. A1). Please explain each of the symbols in the text.
P16, L3-L4. Reformulate sentence.
P18, L14. Reformulate sentence.

After these corrections are made, the paper can be published. Congratulations!

Best regards,

Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen – editor
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