Comment on: “A review of the complementary principle of evaporation: from the original linear relationship to generalized nonlinear functions” by Han and Tian (2020)

Crago, Richard D.; Szilagyi, Jozsef; Qualls, Russell

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-63-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-63-2021

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04 Jan 2021

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| 04 Jan 2021

Comment on: “A review of the complementary principle of evaporation: from the original linear relationship to generalized nonlinear functions” by Han and Tian (2020)

Richard D. Crago, Jozsef Szilagyi, and Russell Qualls

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Final revised paper (published on 04 Jan 2021)
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RC1: 'Review of hess-2020-310', Songjun Han, 02 Sep 2020
- AC1: 'Response to the review by Han and Tian', Richard Crago, 13 Oct 2020
RC2: 'comments', Fuqiang Tian, 09 Sep 2020
- AC1: 'Response to the review by Han and Tian', Richard Crago, 13 Oct 2020

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by editor) (24 Oct 2020) by Alberto Guadagnini

AR by Richard Crago on behalf of the Authors (12 Nov 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (14 Nov 2020) by Alberto Guadagnini

AR by Richard Crago on behalf of the Authors (23 Nov 2020)

Short summary

The sigmoid-shaped complementary relationship (CR) for regional evaporation proposed by Han and Tian (2018, 2020) is reconsidered in terms of (1) its ability to give reasonable evaporation results from sites worldwide, (2) evidence for the three-state evaporation process it posits, (3) the validity of the proof provided by Han and Tian (2018), and (4) the relevance of model studies that seem to support it. Arguments for the sigmoid shape deserve to be taken seriously but remain unconvincing.