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Reply to comment by Ma and Zhang on “Rescaling the complementary relationship for land surface evaporation”
Author(s) -
Crago Richard,
Qualls Russell,
Szilagyi Jozsef,
Huntington Justin
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
water resources research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 217
eISSN - 1944-7973
pISSN - 0043-1397
DOI - 10.1002/2017wr021021
Subject(s) - zhàng , evaporation , scale (ratio) , reliability (semiconductor) , surface (topology) , environmental science , meteorology , mathematics , atmospheric sciences , econometrics , geology , physics , geography , thermodynamics , geometry , china , cartography , archaeology , power (physics)
Ma and Zhang (2017) note a concern they have with our rescaled Complementary Relationship (CR) for land surface evaporation when daily average wind speeds are very low (perhaps less than 1 m/s). We discuss conditions and specific formulations that lead to this concern, but ultimately argue that under these conditions, a key assumption behind the CR itself may not be satisfied at the daily time scale. Thus, careful consideration of the reliability of the CR is needed when wind speeds are very low.