Evaposublimation from the snow in the Mediterranean mountains of Sierra Nevada (Spain)

Herrero, Javier; Polo, María José

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2981-2016

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2981-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2981-2016

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

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

Research article

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06 Dec 2016

Research article |

| 06 Dec 2016

Evaposublimation from the snow in the Mediterranean mountains of Sierra Nevada (Spain)

Javier Herrero and María José Polo

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Sep 2016
- AC1: 'Answer to Anonymous Referee #1', Javier Herrero, 29 Oct 2016
RC2: 'Interesting paper, but requires some moderate revisions', Werner Eugster, 01 Oct 2016
- AC2: 'Answer to Werner Eugster - Referee #2', Javier Herrero, 29 Oct 2016

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AR by Javier Herrero on behalf of the Authors (29 Oct 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (15 Nov 2016) by Martin Schneebeli

AR by Javier Herrero on behalf of the Authors (17 Nov 2016)

Short summary

We present 7 years of field work and modelling to assess the importance of the loss of water from the snow by means of evaposublimation in the Mediterranean mountains of Sierra Nevada. The actual evaposublimation rates were detected through detailed measurement of the mass fluxes from the snow. These data have led to some improvements in the modelling of the snow dynamics in this kind of mountainous semiarid regions. Evaposublimation is estimated to range 24–33% of total annual snowfall.