Data-driven estimates of evapotranspiration  and its controls in the Congo Basin

Burnett, Michael W.; Quetin, Gregory R.; Konings, Alexandra G.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4189-2020

Articles | Volume 24, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4189-2020

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4189-2020

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

Articles | Volume 24, issue 8

Research article

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27 Aug 2020

Research article |

| 27 Aug 2020

Data-driven estimates of evapotranspiration and its controls in the Congo Basin

Michael W. Burnett, Gregory R. Quetin, and Alexandra G. Konings

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RC1: 'Review of Data-driven estimates of evapotranspiration and its drivers in the Congo Basin by Burnett et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 20 May 2020
- AC1: 'Author response to RC1', Michael Burnett, 01 Jul 2020
RC2: 'review of Data-driven estimates of evapotranspiration and its drivers in the Congo Basin', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Jun 2020
- AC2: 'Author response to RC2', Michael Burnett, 01 Jul 2020

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by editor) (05 Jul 2020) by Adriaan J. (Ryan) Teuling

AR by Michael Burnett on behalf of the Authors (13 Jul 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (23 Jul 2020) by Adriaan J. (Ryan) Teuling

Short summary

Water that evaporates from Africa's tropical forests provides rainfall throughout the continent. However, there are few sources of meteorological data in central Africa, so we use observations from satellites to estimate evaporation from the Congo Basin at different times of the year. We find that existing evaporation estimates in tropical Africa do not accurately capture seasonal variations in evaporation and that fluctuations in soil moisture and solar radiation drive evaporation rates.