Attribution of growing season evapotranspiration variability considering snowmelt and vegetation changes in the arid alpine basins

Ning, Tingting; Li, Zhi; Feng, Qi; Li, Zongxing; Qin, Yanyan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-3455-2021

Articles | Volume 25, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-3455-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-3455-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 25, issue 6

Research article

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18 Jun 2021

Research article |

| 18 Jun 2021

Attribution of growing season evapotranspiration variability considering snowmelt and vegetation changes in the arid alpine basins

Tingting Ning, Zhi Li, Qi Feng, Zongxing Li, and Yanyan Qin

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RC1: 'Review of “Attribution of growing season evapotranspiration variability considering snowmelt and vegetation changes in the arid alpine basins”', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Jan 2021
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Tingting Ning, 02 Feb 2021
RC2: 'hess-2020-535-Comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 Jan 2021
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Tingting Ning, 02 Feb 2021

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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) (09 Feb 2021) by Markus Hrachowitz

AR by Tingting Ning on behalf of the Authors (13 Feb 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (18 Feb 2021) by Markus Hrachowitz

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (21 Mar 2021)

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (23 Mar 2021) by Markus Hrachowitz

AR by Tingting Ning on behalf of the Authors (08 Apr 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (09 Apr 2021) by Markus Hrachowitz

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (08 May 2021)

ED: Publish as is (10 May 2021) by Markus Hrachowitz

AR by Tingting Ning on behalf of the Authors (12 May 2021)

Short summary

Previous studies decomposed ET variance in precipitation, potential ET, and total water storage changes based on Budyko equations. However, the effects of snowmelt and vegetation changes have not been incorporated in snow-dependent basins. We thus extended this method in arid alpine basins of northwest China and found that ET variance is primarily controlled by rainfall, followed by coupled rainfall and vegetation. The out-of-phase seasonality between rainfall and snowmelt weaken ET variance.