How do modeling choices and erosion zone  locations impact the representation of  connectivity and the dynamics of suspended  sediments in a multi-source soil erosion model?

Uber, Magdalena; Nord, Guillaume; Legout, Cédric; Cea, Luis

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-123-2021

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-123-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-123-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

Research article

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03 Mar 2021

Research article |

| 03 Mar 2021

How do modeling choices and erosion zone locations impact the representation of connectivity and the dynamics of suspended sediments in a multi-source soil erosion model?

Magdalena Uber, Guillaume Nord, Cédric Legout, and Luis Cea

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Final revised paper (published on 03 Mar 2021)
Preprint (discussion started on 31 Aug 2020)

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

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RC1: 'Review of Uber et al., "How do modeling choices impact the representation of structural connectivity and the dynamics of suspended sediment fluxes in distributed soil erosion models?"', Anonymous Referee #1, 26 Oct 2020
- AC1: 'Answer to referee #1', Cédric Legoût, 02 Dec 2020
EC1: 'short comment on Uber et al', Greg Hancock, 30 Nov 2020
- AC2: 'Answer to editor', Cédric Legoût, 16 Dec 2020
SC1: 'The way forward by combined hydrology-sediment modelling', Peter Molnar, 05 Dec 2020
- AC3: 'Reply on SC1', Cédric Legoût, 11 Jan 2021

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

AR by Cédric Legoût on behalf of the Authors (11 Jan 2021) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (13 Jan 2021) by Greg Hancock

ED: Publish as is (15 Jan 2021) by Tom Coulthard (Editor)

AR by Cédric Legoût on behalf of the Authors (20 Jan 2021)

Short summary

Understanding soil erosion and suspended sediment transport is an important issue in terms of soil and water resources management. This study analyzes the impact of choices made during numerical model setup on the modeled suspended sediment dynamics at the outlet of two mesoscale watersheds. While the modeled liquid and solid discharges were found to be sensitive to these choices, the actual location of sediment sources in each catchment was the most important feature.