Aerial and surface rivers: downwind impacts on water  availability from land use changes in Amazonia

Weng, Wei; Luedeke, Matthias K. B.; Zemp, Delphine C.; Lakes, Tobia; Kropp, Juergen P.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-911-2018

Articles | Volume 22, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-911-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-911-2018

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

Articles | Volume 22, issue 1

Research article

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01 Feb 2018

Research article |

| 01 Feb 2018

Aerial and surface rivers: downwind impacts on water availability from land use changes in Amazonia

Wei Weng, Matthias K. B. Luedeke, Delphine C. Zemp, Tobia Lakes, and Juergen P. Kropp

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of Wei Weng et al. "Aerial and surface rivers"', Patrick Keys, 17 Oct 2017
- AC1: 'Response to comments from referee#1 Dr. Keys', Wei Weng, 11 Nov 2017
RC2: 'Review of Wei Weng et al', Rogier Westerhoff, 19 Oct 2017
- AC2: 'Response to comments from referee#2 Dr. Westerhoff', Wei Weng, 11 Nov 2017
SC1: 'Review on: “Aerial and surface rivers: downwind impacts on water availability from land use changes in Amazonia” by Wei Weng et al.', Coen Maas, 07 Nov 2017
- AC3: 'Response to comments from Mr. Maas', Wei Weng, 11 Nov 2017

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

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (25 Nov 2017) by Alexander Gelfan

AR by Wei Weng on behalf of the Authors (26 Nov 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (29 Dec 2017) by Alexander Gelfan

AR by Wei Weng on behalf of the Authors (02 Jan 2018)

Short summary

We provide a detailed spatial analysis of hydrological impacts of land use change in Amazonia, focusing on the aspect of aerial rivers. Our approach of observation-based atmospheric moisture tracking allows us to recognize potential teleconnection between source and sink regions of atmospheric moisture. Relying on a quantitative assessment, we identified regions where water availability is most sensitive to land use change and regions where land use change is critical for a given sink region.