Weak sensitivity of the terrestrial water budget to global soil texture maps in the ORCHIDEE land surface model

Tafasca, Salma; Ducharne, Agnès; Valentin, Christian

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-3753-2020

Articles | Volume 24, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-3753-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-3753-2020

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

Articles | Volume 24, issue 7

Research article

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24 Jul 2020

Research article |

| 24 Jul 2020

Weak sensitivity of the terrestrial water budget to global soil texture maps in the ORCHIDEE land surface model

Salma Tafasca, Agnès Ducharne, and Christian Valentin

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RC1: 'Review of the manuscript “Weak sensitivity of the terrestrial water budget to global soil texture maps in the ORCHIDEE land surface model” by Tafasca et al. [hess-2019-305].', Anonymous Referee #1, 22 Sep 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #1', Salma Tafasca, 20 Jan 2020
RC2: 'Weak sensitivity of the terrestrial water budget to global soil texture maps in the ORCHIDEE land surface model', Anonymous Referee #2, 05 Nov 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #2', Salma Tafasca, 14 Jan 2020
RC3: 'Review of the manuscript hess-2019-305: “Weak sensitivity of the terrestrial water budget to global soil texture maps in the ORCHIDEE land surface model” by Tafasca et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 11 Nov 2019
- AC3: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #3', Salma Tafasca, 20 Jan 2020

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

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (26 Feb 2020) by Albrecht Weerts

AR by Salma Tafasca on behalf of the Authors (08 Apr 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (23 Apr 2020) by Albrecht Weerts

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (07 Jun 2020)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (11 Jun 2020)

ED: Publish as is (14 Jun 2020) by Albrecht Weerts

AR by Salma Tafasca on behalf of the Authors (23 Jun 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

In land surface models (LSMs), soil properties are inferred from soil texture. In this study, we use different input global soil texture maps from the literature to investigate the impact of soil texture on the simulated water budget in an LSM. The medium loamy textures give the highest evapotranspiration and lowest total runoff rates. However, the different soil texture maps result in similar water budgets because of their inherent similarities, especially when upscaled at the 0.5° resolution.