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The Seasonal and Diurnal Variation Characteristics of Soil Moisture at Different Depths from Observational Sites over the Tibetan Plateau

Remote Sens. 2022, 14(19), 5010; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14195010
by Hongyi Li 1, Ziniu Xiao 2, Junhong Wei 3,4,5 and Ge Wang 6,*
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Remote Sens. 2022, 14(19), 5010; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14195010
Submission received: 8 August 2022 / Revised: 17 September 2022 / Accepted: 27 September 2022 / Published: 8 October 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land-Atmosphere Interactions and Effects on the Climate of the Tibetan Plateau and Surrounding Regions II)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

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Reviewer 2 Report

 

Li and co-authors present an interesting dataset of soil moisture from the third Tibetan Plateau Experiment 13 for atmospheric science. They explored the patterns of soil moisture from multiple stations on seasonal and diurnal timescales and along vertical soil profiles, emphasizing the relationship between soil moisture and temperature. Their conclusions are a seemly quite complex description of the data.

 My first concern is that this manuscript seems to not meet the scope of the journal remote sensing. The authors did not tell how to get these data in this study, which should be added in the method section. It is plausible these are handled measurements or sensor logging.

Besides, it seems to be a data report, with most attention on the description of data; however, the discussion section is quite short. Thus, I worry about the broad interest of general readers. In the introduction section, the authors argued that previous studies on Tibetan soil moisture mainly focused on the analysis of a single site or typical underlying surface. In this paper, though the authors gathered data from multi sites, they did not comprehensively discuss the spatial pattern. Collectively, this manuscript is too descriptive and general findings are quite weak for common readers.

 Another concern is the title of the paper. They present soil moisture both on time (seasonal and diurnal) and spatial (vertical) scales. Discussion on the comparison among sites is also strongly recommended. In addition, the time spanning in this study is not long, a little > 1 year. Herein, the current title did not encompass the major results of this study.

 

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

I appreciate the authors' efforts to improve the quality of the manuscript. I suggest to accept it for publication in the present form. 

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