Impact of revegetation of the Loess Plateau of China on the regional growing season water balance

Ge, Jun; Pitman, Andrew J.; Guo, Weidong; Zan, Beilei; Fu, Congbin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-515-2020

Articles | Volume 24, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-515-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-515-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 24, issue 2

Research article

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04 Feb 2020

Research article |

| 04 Feb 2020

Impact of revegetation of the Loess Plateau of China on the regional growing season water balance

Jun Ge, Andrew J. Pitman, Weidong Guo, Beilei Zan, and Congbin Fu

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RC1: 'Comments on 'Impact of revegetation of the Loess Plateau of China on the regional growing season water balance'', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Aug 2019
- AC1: 'response to reviewer 1', Jun Ge, 24 Sep 2019
RC2: 'Review comments for the manuscript “Impact of revegetation of the Loess Plateau of China on the regional growing season water balance” by Jun Ge, Andrew J. Pitman, Weidong Guo, Beilei Zan, Congbin Fu.', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Sep 2019
- AC2: 'response to reviewer 2', Jun Ge, 24 Sep 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (11 Oct 2019) by Xing Yuan

AR by Jun Ge on behalf of the Authors (04 Nov 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (05 Nov 2019) by Xing Yuan

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (20 Nov 2019)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (12 Dec 2019)

ED: Publish as is (15 Dec 2019) by Xing Yuan

Short summary

We investigate the impact of revegetation on the hydrology of the Loess Plateau based on high-resolution simulations using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. We find that past revegetation has caused decreased runoff and soil moisture with increased evapotranspiration as well as little response from rainfall. WRF suggests that further revegetation could aggravate this water imbalance. We caution that further revegetation might be unsustainable in this region.