Comment on “Origin of water in the Badain Jaran Desert, China: new insight from isotopes” by Wu et al. (2017)

Zhan, Lucheng; Chen, Jiansheng; Li, Ling; Barry, David A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-4449-2018

Articles | Volume 22, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-4449-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-4449-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 22, issue 8

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22 Aug 2018

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Comment on “Origin of water in the Badain Jaran Desert, China: new insight from isotopes” by Wu et al. (2017)

Lucheng Zhan, Jiansheng Chen, Ling Li, and David A. Barry

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RC1: 'Comments to the Authors', Anonymous Referee #1, 11 Jun 2018
- AC1: 'Response to RC1&RC2', Lucheng Zhan, 13 Jul 2018
RC2: 'Comment on “Origin of water in the Badain Jaran Desert, China: new insight from isotopes” by Wu et al. (2017)', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Jun 2018
- AC1: 'Response to RC1&RC2', Lucheng Zhan, 13 Jul 2018
SC1: 'Reply to the Comment on “Origin of water in the Badain Jaran Desert, China: new insight from isotopes” by Wu et al. (2017)', xiujie wu, 02 Jul 2018
- AC2: 'Response to X. Wu', Lucheng Zhan, 13 Jul 2018

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

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by editor) (17 Jul 2018) by Christine Stumpp

AR by Lucheng Zhan on behalf of the Authors (26 Jul 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (03 Aug 2018) by Christine Stumpp

AR by Lucheng Zhan on behalf of the Authors (06 Aug 2018) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Using the arithmetic averages of precipitation isotope values, Wu et al. (2017) concluded that the Badain Jaran Desert (BJD) groundwater is recharged by modern local meteoric water. However, based on weighted mean precipitation isotope values, our further analysis shows that modern precipitation on the Qilian Mountains is more likely to be the main source of the groundwater and lake water in the BJD, as found. We believe this comment provides an important improvement for their study.