Publication Date:
2016-05-24
Description:
The reply addresses concerns raised by Schilling [2015] claiming that Gupta et al . [2015a,b] mischaracterized his research on the impact of land use change on streamflow. We disagree with his interpretation. In the reply we show that our interpretation of his work on lack of climate impact on streamflow is consistent with interpretation by others in the literature including some of his co-authors ( Xu, Scanlon, Schilling , and Sun, 2013) who stated that Schilling [2005] and Zhang and Schilling [2006] studies concluded that land surface change played a dominant role compared to climate change. Our writing may have been too explicit but is similar to that of Ryberg et al . [2014]. We are convinced that a clarification was needed. Furthermore, we provide additional analysis of the Raccoon River flows in Iowa and show that both annual streamflow and baseflow are mainly controlled by precipitation not only in a given year but also by precipitation in the previous year. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Print ISSN:
0043-1397
Electronic ISSN:
1944-7973
Topics:
Architecture, Civil Engineering, Surveying
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Geography
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