Modeling the response of soil moisture to climate  variability in the Mediterranean region

Mimeau, Louise; Tramblay, Yves; Brocca, Luca; Massari, Christian; Camici, Stefania; Finaud-Guyot, Pascal

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-653-2021

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11 Feb 2021

Research article |

| 11 Feb 2021

Modeling the response of soil moisture to climate variability in the Mediterranean region

Louise Mimeau, Yves Tramblay, Luca Brocca, Christian Massari, Stefania Camici, and Pascal Finaud-Guyot

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RC1: 'Nice paper but the generation of the rainfall scenarios can be improved', Guillaume Evin, 20 Jul 2020
- AC1: 'Repy to Guillaume Evin', Yves Tramblay, 16 Oct 2020
RC2: 'Great work showing the importance of rainfall intermittency over mean rainfall changes for soil moisture', Anonymous Referee #2, 27 Jul 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to Reviewer 2', Yves Tramblay, 16 Oct 2020
RC3: 'Interesting approach, but more detail and better embedding needed', Ryan Teuling, 31 Jul 2020
- AC3: 'Reply to Ryan Teuling', Yves Tramblay, 16 Oct 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) (28 Oct 2020) by Markus Hrachowitz

AR by Yves Tramblay on behalf of the Authors (30 Nov 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (01 Dec 2020) by Markus Hrachowitz

RR by Guillaume Evin (08 Dec 2020)

ED: Publish as is (11 Jan 2021) by Markus Hrachowitz

AR by Yves Tramblay on behalf of the Authors (11 Jan 2021)

Short summary

Soil moisture is a key variable related to droughts and flood genesis, but little is known about the evolution of soil moisture under climate change. Here, using a simulation approach, we show that changes in soil moisture are driven by changes in precipitation intermittence rather than changes in precipitation intensity or in temperature.