Model representation of the coupling between evapotranspiration and soil water content at different depths

Qiu, Jianxiu; Crow, Wade T.; Dong, Jianzhi; Nearing, Grey S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-581-2020

Articles | Volume 24, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-581-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-581-2020

© 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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07 Feb 2020

Research article |

| 07 Feb 2020

Model representation of the coupling between evapotranspiration and soil water content at different depths

Jianxiu Qiu, Wade T. Crow, Jianzhi Dong, and Grey S. Nearing

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SC1: 'Thank you for the advice.', Diego G. Miralles, 18 Jul 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to SC1', Jianxiu Qiu, 15 Oct 2019
RC1: 'Review of the manuscript: Land Surface Model Representation of the Mutual Information Context between Multi-Layer Soil Moisture and Evapotranspiration', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Aug 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to RC1', Jianxiu Qiu, 22 Oct 2019
RC2: 'Jianxiu et al', Anonymous Referee #2, 13 Oct 2019
- AC3: 'Reply to RC2', Jianxiu Qiu, 22 Oct 2019

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

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by editor) (25 Nov 2019) by Dominic Mazvimavi

AR by Jianxiu Qiu on behalf of the Authors (25 Nov 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (06 Jan 2020) by Dominic Mazvimavi

Short summary

Accurately estimating coupling of evapotranspiration (ET) and soil water content (θ) at different depths is key to investigating land–atmosphere interaction. Here we examine whether the model can accurately represent surface θ (θ_s) versus ET coupling and vertically integrated θ (θ_v) versus ET coupling. We find that all models agree with observations that θ_s contains slightly more information with fPET than θ_v. In addition, an ET scheme is crucial for accurately estimating coupling of θ and ET.