A Lagrangian analysis of the present-day sources of moisture for major
ice-core sites

Drumond, Anita; Taboada, Erica; Nieto, Raquel; Gimeno, Luis; Vicente-Serrano, Sergio M.; López-Moreno, Juan Ignacio

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-549-2016

Articles | Volume 7, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-549-2016

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-549-2016

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

Articles | Volume 7, issue 3

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08 Jul 2016

Short communication |

| 08 Jul 2016

A Lagrangian analysis of the present-day sources of moisture for major ice-core sites

Anita Drumond, Erica Taboada, Raquel Nieto, Luis Gimeno, Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano, and Juan Ignacio López-Moreno

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Referee_Comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Feb 2016
- AC2: 'Answer Ref 1', Anita Drumond, 15 Apr 2016
RC2: 'Method needs to be better explained', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Feb 2016
- AC3: 'Answer to Ref 2', Anita Drumond, 15 Apr 2016
RC3: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #3, 07 Mar 2016
- AC4: 'Answer Ref 3', Anita Drumond, 15 Apr 2016
EC1: 'Major revision needed', Michel Crucifix, 07 Mar 2016
- AC1: 'answer to the Reviewers', Anita Drumond, 15 Apr 2016
- AC5: 'manuscript with the corrections', Anita Drumond, 15 Apr 2016

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

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (15 Apr 2016) by Michel Crucifix

AR by Anita Drumond on behalf of the Authors (15 Apr 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (21 Apr 2016) by Michel Crucifix

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (09 May 2016)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (23 May 2016) by Michel Crucifix

AR by Anita Drumond on behalf of the Authors (28 May 2016) Manuscript

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A Lagrangian approach was used to identify the moisture sources for fourteen ice-core sites located worldwide for the present climate. The approach computed budgets of evaporation minus precipitation by calculating changes in the specific humidity along 10-day backward trajectories. The results indicate that the oceanic regions around the subtropical high-pressure centers provide most of moisture, and their contribution varies throughout the year following the annual cycles of the centers.