Redressing the balance: quantifying net intercatchment groundwater flows

Bouaziz, Laurène; Weerts, Albrecht; Schellekens, Jaap; Sprokkereef, Eric; Stam, Jasper; Savenije, Hubert; Hrachowitz, Markus

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-6415-2018

Articles | Volume 22, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-6415-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-6415-2018

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

Articles | Volume 22, issue 12

Research article

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10 Dec 2018

Research article |

| 10 Dec 2018

Redressing the balance: quantifying net intercatchment groundwater flows

Laurène Bouaziz, Albrecht Weerts, Jaap Schellekens, Eric Sprokkereef, Jasper Stam, Hubert Savenije, and Markus Hrachowitz

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RC1: 'Comment on "Redressing the balance: quantifying net intercatchment groundwater flows" by Bouaziz et al', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Aug 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #1', Laurène Bouaziz, 29 Aug 2018
RC2: 'Evaluation of the paper entitled “Redressing the balance: quantifying net intercatchment groundwater flows” by Bouaziz et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 15 Sep 2018
- AC2: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #2', Laurène Bouaziz, 21 Sep 2018

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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) (24 Sep 2018) by Martijn Westhoff

AR by Laurène Bouaziz on behalf of the Authors (08 Oct 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (10 Oct 2018) by Martijn Westhoff

ED: Publish as is (14 Nov 2018) by Martijn Westhoff

AR by Laurène Bouaziz on behalf of the Authors (26 Nov 2018) Manuscript

Short summary

We quantify net intercatchment groundwater flows in the Meuse basin in a complementary three-step approach through (1) water budget accounting, (2) testing a set of conceptual hydrological models and (3) evaluating against remote sensing actual evaporation data. We show that net intercatchment groundwater flows can make up as much as 25 % of mean annual precipitation in the headwaters and should therefore be accounted for in conceptual models to prevent overestimating actual evaporation rates.