Lifetime of soil moisture perturbations in a coupled land–atmosphere simulation

Stacke, T.; Hagemann, S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-1-2016

Articles | Volume 7, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-1-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-1-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 7, issue 1

Research article

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18 Jan 2016

Research article |

| 18 Jan 2016

Lifetime of soil moisture perturbations in a coupled land–atmosphere simulation

T. Stacke and S. Hagemann

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Final revised paper (published on 18 Jan 2016)
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RC C662: 'Comments on ‘Life time of soil moisture perturbations in a coupled land-atmosphere simulation’ by T. Stacke and S. Hagemann', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Oct 2015
- AC C805: 'Reply to anonymous referee #1', Tobias Stacke, 17 Nov 2015
RC C682: 'review of "Life time of soil moisture perturbations in a coupled land-atmosphere simulation ” by T. Stacke and S. Hagemann', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Oct 2015
- AC C808: 'Reply to anonymous referee #2', Tobias Stacke, 17 Nov 2015
EC C694: 'Editors' comments', Raghavan Krishnan, 13 Oct 2015
RC C698: 'Review of Stacke and Hagemann (2015; ESDD)', Paul Dirmeyer, 13 Oct 2015
- AC C814: 'Reply to Prof. Dirmeyer', Tobias Stacke, 17 Nov 2015
EC C829: 'Editors' comments', Raghavan Krishnan, 17 Nov 2015
EC C852: 'Additional comments by the Reviewer Dr. Paul Dirmeyer', Raghavan Krishnan, 23 Nov 2015
- AC C903: 'Reply to Prof. Dirmeyer', Tobias Stacke, 02 Dec 2015

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Tobias Stacke on behalf of the Authors (17 Nov 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (21 Nov 2015) by Raghavan Krishnan

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (01 Dec 2015)

ED: Publish as is (06 Dec 2015) by Raghavan Krishnan

AR by Tobias Stacke on behalf of the Authors (09 Dec 2015)

Short summary

This study evaluates the lifetime of soil moisture perturbations using an atmosphere-land GCM. We find memory of up to 9 months for root zone soil moisture. Interactions with other surface states result in significant but short-lived anomalies in surface temperature and more stable anomalies in leaf carbon content. As these anomalies can recur repeatedly, e.g. due to interactions with a deep-soil moisture reservoir, we conclude that soil moisture initialization may impact climate predictions.