Rosalia: an experimental research site to study hydrological processes in a forest catchment

Fürst, Josef; Nachtnebel, Hans Peter; Gasch, Josef; Nolz, Reinhard; Stockinger, Michael Paul; Stumpp, Christine; Schulz, Karsten

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4019-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4019-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4019-2021

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

Articles | Volume 13, issue 8

Data description paper

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19 Aug 2021

Data description paper |

| 19 Aug 2021

Rosalia: an experimental research site to study hydrological processes in a forest catchment

Josef Fürst, Hans Peter Nachtnebel, Josef Gasch, Reinhard Nolz, Michael Paul Stockinger, Christine Stumpp, and Karsten Schulz

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RC1: 'Comments to Fürst et al. ESSD submission', Anonymous Referee #1, 22 Dec 2020
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Josef Fürst, 16 Feb 2021
RC2: 'Referee comments on the manuscript ESSD-2020-254', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Jan 2021
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Josef Fürst, 16 Feb 2021

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

AR by Josef Fürst on behalf of the Authors (27 Apr 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (28 Apr 2021) by Lukas Gudmundsson

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (22 May 2021)

Suggestions for revision or reasons for rejection

Thank you for revising the manuscript. From my point of view, it has improved significantly. The description of the watershed, sites and sensors are more detailed and therefore better understandable. Also the added details about data description, accuracy and data cleaning process support the understanding for the readers and possible data users.

However, I still have a few minor comments.

With regard to the Revised Manuscript:
- Fig 1: Source for the DEM / elevation map is missing in the figure caption.
- Line 91: This coordinate LAT 47°42’N, LON 16°17’E refers to a single point. However, the corresponding sentence belongs to the watershed description. Either further coordinates would have to be added here to delineate the watershed or it would have to be added which point this is.
- Line 92: “Terrain heights range from 320 to 725 m a.s.l.“. Why does the map legend in Fig. 1 starts with 361 m asl? Is this due to the map resolution?
- Lines 93-94: On what source is this precipitation and temperature data based?
- Fig. 3: Source for the map is missing in the figure caption.
- Fig. 7: It is pointed out in the figure caption that the highest peaks have been cut off. Nevertheless, it might be interesting for the reader to know when the highest peaks appeared. Would it perhaps make sense to use arrows to mark the positions? Or you can refer to the repository.
- Line 349: Please add a reference of the DEM to the reference list.
- Line 467: Add that it is a diploma thesis comparable to line 508.
- Line 522: Add that it is a PhD thesis comparable to line 508.

With regard to the Repository:
In the modified manuscript there are confusions regarding the repository.
In the modified version now there is a new link to https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3997140.
Checking the README.txt file, it states that “This is the repository ‘Rosalia: an experimental research site to study hydrological processes in a forest catchment - data repository’, available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3997141 (Fürst et al., 2020)”. This is not consistent because it refers to the old link of the first submitted version. It also includes the still unchanged title of the manuscript.
Additionally, within the file “Rosalia ESSD.html” under 9 GIS datasets the “Map of sites - Detail Q2” contains elements in the legend which are not part of the map.

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RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (26 May 2021)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (02 Jun 2021) by Lukas Gudmundsson

AR by Josef Fürst on behalf of the Authors (29 Jun 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (14 Jul 2021) by Lukas Gudmundsson

AR by Josef Fürst on behalf of the Authors (19 Jul 2021)

Short summary

Rosalia is a 222 ha forested research watershed in eastern Austria to study water, energy and solute transport processes. The paper describes the site, monitoring network, instrumentation and the datasets: high-resolution (10 min interval) time series starting in 2015 of four discharge gauging stations, seven rain gauges, and observations of air and water temperature, relative humidity, and conductivity, as well as soil water content and temperature, at different depths at four profiles.