The role of the Amazon Basin moisture in the atmospheric branch of the hydrological cycle: a Lagrangian analysis

Drumond, A.; Marengo, J.; Ambrizzi, T.; Nieto, R.; Moreira, L.; Gimeno, L.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-2577-2014

Volume 18, issue 7

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 2577–2598, 2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-2577-2014
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Volume 18, issue 7

Research article 11 Jul 2014

Research article | 11 Jul 2014

The role of the Amazon Basin moisture in the atmospheric branch of the hydrological cycle: a Lagrangian analysis

A. Drumond et al.

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RC C33: 'Review of Drumond et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Jan 2014
RC C366: 'Revisions', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Mar 2014
AC C968: 'response to the Reviewers', Anita Drumond, 16 Apr 2014

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

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (17 Apr 2014) by Ying Fan

AR by Anita Drumond on behalf of the Authors (21 Apr 2014) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (23 Apr 2014) by Ying Fan

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (02 May 2014)

Suggestions for revision or reasons for rejection

This is the revised version of a manuscript that analyzes the sources and sinks of moisture to the Amazon Basin and from the Amazon Basin. This version is quite different from the previous one, as the authors include drough-flood years, ENSO and the Atlantic Meridional Mode.

The authors did an excellent job of improving the literature review, and the ENSO discussion. They addressed most of my concerns adequately – HOWEVER- they also added a lot of information from the previous version.

In my opinion, the additions made the manuscript very (very) difficult to read. I counted a total of 14 pages of multi-panel figures (some had 24 panels). This is simply too much information!! Furthermore, the discussion is extremely dense, with pink/green meaning different things in different figures (convergence-divergence-sources-sinks). My brain was completely exhausted by the middle of the paper.

The authors MUST reduce the amount of information presented in this manuscript. These are my suggestions:
- I would remove the independent analysis of drought / flood because they are so similar to ENSO – the differences can be acknowledged and then lead to the analysis of AMM.
- Significantly reduce the discussion associated with ENSO. In your conclusions, the most important point is that during ENSO years, the Amazon contributes to La Plata. Focus on that.
- Focus on the link between AMM and the oceans.

My overall suggestion is to think about your reader. How will you keep your reader engaged and not loose sight of the most important take away messages.

Minor edits:
Gat and Matsui (2012) – this is incorrect it should be 1991
and references quoted in – is incorrect, should be references quoted therein.

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (06 May 2014) by Ying Fan

AR by Anita Drumond on behalf of the Authors (23 May 2014) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (25 May 2014) by Ying Fan

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (31 May 2014)

ED: Publish as is (01 Jun 2014) by Ying Fan

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