Open AccessJasechko et al. reply
Author(s) -
Scott Jasechko,
Zachary D. Sharp,
J. J. Gibson,
S. J. Birks,
Yi Yi,
Peter J. Fawcett
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
nature
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 15.993
H-Index - 1226
eISSN - 1476-4687
pISSN - 0028-0836
DOI - 10.1038/nature12926
Subject(s) - interception , transpiration , environmental science , surface runoff , evaporation , sensitivity (control systems) , monte carlo method , percentile , atmospheric sciences , hydrology (agriculture) , statistical physics , meteorology , mathematics , physics , statistics , geology , chemistry , ecology , engineering , biology , biochemistry , photosynthesis , geotechnical engineering , electronic engineering
replying to A. M. J. Coenders-Gerrits et al. 506, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature12925 (2014)In their Comment, Coenders-Gerrits et al. suggest that our conclusion that transpiration dominates the terrestrial water cycle is biased by unrepresentative input data and optimistic uncertainty ranges related to runoff, interception and the isotopic compositions of transpired and evaporated moisture. We clearly presented the uncertainties applied in our Monte-Carlo sensitivity analysis, we reported percentile ranges of results rather than standard deviations to best communicate the nonlinear nature of the isotopic evaporation model, and we highlighted that the uncertainty in our calculation remains large, particularly in humid catchments (for example, figure 2 in our paper).
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