Technical note: An improved discharge sensitivity metric for young water fractions

Gallart, Francesc; von Freyberg, Jana; Valiente, María; Kirchner, James W.; Llorens, Pilar; Latron, Jérôme

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1101-2020

Articles | Volume 24, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1101-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1101-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 24, issue 3

Technical note

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06 Mar 2020

Technical note |

| 06 Mar 2020

Technical note: An improved discharge sensitivity metric for young water fractions

Francesc Gallart, Jana von Freyberg, María Valiente, James W. Kirchner, Pilar Llorens, and Jérôme Latron

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Final revised paper (published on 06 Mar 2020)
Preprint (discussion started on 12 Sep 2019)

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RC1: 'Review for: "Technical note: An improved discharge sensitivity metric for young water fractions" hess-2019-447', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Dec 2019
- AC1: 'Responses to referee 1', Francesc Gallart, 15 Jan 2020
RC2: 'Review on 'Technical note: An improved discharge sensitivity metric for young water fractions' by Gallart et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Dec 2019
- AC2: 'Responses to Referee 2', Francesc Gallart, 15 Jan 2020

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by editor) (16 Jan 2020) by Thom Bogaard

AR by Francesc Gallart on behalf of the Authors (24 Jan 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (06 Feb 2020) by Thom Bogaard

AR by Francesc Gallart on behalf of the Authors (07 Feb 2020)

Short summary

How catchments store and release rain or melting water is still not well known. Now, it is broadly accepted that most of the water in streams is older than several months, and a relevant part may be many years old. But the age of water depends on the stream regime, being usually younger during high flows. This paper tries to provide tools for better analysing how the age of waters varies with flow in a catchment and for comparing the behaviour of catchments diverging in climate, size and regime.