Articles | Volume 18, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3435-2026
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Hydrometeorological and hydrological data from Baker Creek Research Watershed, Northwest Territories, Canada, release V.3
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- Final revised paper (published on 21 May 2026)
- Preprint (discussion started on 26 Feb 2026)
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- RC1: 'Comment on essd-2026-87', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Apr 2026
- RC2: 'Comment on essd-2026-87', Ryan Connon, 27 Apr 2026
- AC1: 'Response to referee comments on essd-2026-87', Christopher Spence, 05 May 2026
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AR by Christopher Spence on behalf of the Authors (05 May 2026)
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ED: Publish as is (06 May 2026) by Chris DeBeer
AR by Christopher Spence on behalf of the Authors (07 May 2026)
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Spence and Hedstrom provide a third update to data from Baker Creek in Canada's Northwest Territories. This is a remarkable sentinel site and I commend the authors for the hard work to keep this remote and hard to access site going. As the authors point out, data from this site can be used for many purposes by many people There aer few other sites with such long term data sets in a cold and rapidly changing environment. The authors highlight recent studies that have used their data, which shows considerable update. I have reviewed the manuscript data and it clear with metadata and appropriate labelling. There are a few comments that the authors may consider:
Figure 3 shows average daily net radiation. Could this figure how more of the 'variability' in the energy fluxes? So perhaps a solid line for the average and shading for some range (SD, IQR, etc) just to get an idea of the variability. The same comment for Table 3
Figure 4 is very small and difficult to read. Axes, labels, etc., should all be made much larger.
For Figure 5, would it be worthwhile to indicate when there were sensor issues with a shaded region. This is different than 'no data', but for example it seems 2008 had no rainfall, but obviously this was because of some instrumentation problem (which is normal). This isn't critical I suppose, but tehe same goes for the total precipitation figure. Something to consider.
Figure 6. I think this is volumetric liquid water technically, not total soil moisture.