A review of the complementary principle of evaporation: from  the original linear relationship to generalized nonlinear functions

Han, Songjun; Tian, Fuqiang

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-2269-2020

Articles | Volume 24, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-2269-2020

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-2269-2020

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

Articles | Volume 24, issue 5

Review article

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08 May 2020

Review article |

| 08 May 2020

A review of the complementary principle of evaporation: from the original linear relationship to generalized nonlinear functions

Songjun Han and Fuqiang Tian

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Final revised paper (published on 08 May 2020)
Preprint (discussion started on 25 Nov 2019)

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RC1: 'Review Comments for hess-2019-545', Anonymous Referee #1, 31 Dec 2019
- AC1: 'Interactive comment on “Complementary principle of evaporation: From original linear relationship to generalized nonlinear functions” by Songjun Han and Fuqiang Tian', Songjun Han, 10 Feb 2020
RC2: 'Review on the Complementary principle of evaporation', Anonymous Referee #2, 01 Jan 2020
- AC2: 'Interactive comment on “Complementary principle of evaporation: From original linear relationship to generalized nonlinear functions” by Songjun Han and Fuqiang Tian', Songjun Han, 10 Feb 2020
RC3: 'Comments on hess-2019-545', Anonymous Referee #3, 08 Jan 2020
- AC3: 'Interactive comment on “Complementary principle of evaporation: From original linear relationship to generalized nonlinear functions” by Songjun Han and Fuqiang Tian', Songjun Han, 10 Feb 2020

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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) (10 Feb 2020) by Xing Yuan

AR by Songjun Han on behalf of the Authors (27 Feb 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (10 Mar 2020) by Xing Yuan

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (23 Mar 2020)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (01 Apr 2020)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (05 Apr 2020) by Xing Yuan

AR by Songjun Han on behalf of the Authors (06 Apr 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

The complementary principle is an important methodology for estimating actual evaporation by using routinely observed meteorological variables. This review summaries its 56-year development, focusing on how related studies have shifted from adopting a symmetric linear complementary relationship to employing generalized nonlinear functions. We also compare the polynomial and sigmoid types of generalized complementary functions and discuss their future development.