Exploring the relationships between warm-season precipitation, potential evaporation, and “apparent” potential evaporation at site scale

Chen, Xi; Buchberger, Steven G.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-4535-2018

Articles | Volume 22, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-4535-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-4535-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 8

Research article

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28 Aug 2018

Research article |

| 28 Aug 2018

Exploring the relationships between warm-season precipitation, potential evaporation, and “apparent” potential evaporation at site scale

Xi Chen and Steven G. Buchberger

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RC1: 'review comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 May 2018
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Xi Chen, 11 Jul 2018
RC2: 'Reviewer comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 May 2018
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Xi Chen, 11 Jul 2018
RC3: 'Review Comments', Anonymous Referee #3, 17 May 2018
- AC3: 'Response to Reviewer 3', Xi Chen, 11 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) (20 Jul 2018) by Bob Su

AR by Xi Chen on behalf of the Authors (30 Jul 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (02 Aug 2018) by Bob Su

AR by Xi Chen on behalf of the Authors (06 Aug 2018) Manuscript

Short summary

Based on warm season data from 259 weather stations across the US, we analyze the correlation between precipitation, potential evaporation, and “apparent” potential evaporation (measured by pan evaporation). Over 93 % of the stations show negative correlation between precipitation and apparent potential evaporation, but no clear relationship is shown between precipitation and potential evaporation. The collected data points follow the trend of the newly derived Bouchet–Budyko curve.