Graphically interpreting how incision thresholds  influence topographic and scaling  properties of modeled landscapes

Theodoratos, Nikos; Kirchner, James W.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-1545-2021

Articles | Volume 9, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-1545-2021

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-1545-2021

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

Articles | Volume 9, issue 6

Research article

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13 Dec 2021

Research article |

| 13 Dec 2021

Graphically interpreting how incision thresholds influence topographic and scaling properties of modeled landscapes

Nikos Theodoratos and James W. Kirchner

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RC1: 'Review of “Graphically interpreting how incision thresholds influence topographic and scaling properties of modeled landscapes”', Fiona Clubb, 15 Jul 2020
RC2: 'Review of "Graphically interpreting how incision thresholds influence topographic and scaling properties of modeled landscapes"', Philippe Steer, 22 Sep 2020
AC1: 'Reply to referee comments', Nikos Theodoratos, 04 Dec 2020

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

AR by Nikos Theodoratos on behalf of the Authors (08 Mar 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (21 Mar 2021) by Paola Passalacqua

RR by Fiona Clubb (30 Apr 2021)

ED: Publish as is (09 May 2021) by Paola Passalacqua

ED: Publish as is (10 May 2021) by Niels Hovius (Editor)

AR by Nikos Theodoratos on behalf of the Authors (18 May 2021)

Short summary

We examine stream-power incision and linear diffusion landscape evolution models with and without incision thresholds. We present a steady-state relationship between curvature and the steepness index, which plots as a straight line. We view this line as a counterpart to the slope–area relationship for the case of landscapes with hillslope diffusion. We show that simple shifts and rotations of this line graphically express the topographic response of landscapes to changes in model parameters.