On Characteristics and Mixing Effects of Internal Solitary Waves in the Northern Yellow Sea as Revealed by Satellite and In Situ Observations
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Manuscript ID: remotesensing-1814543
Title: On characteristics and mixing effects of internal solitary waves in the northern Yellow Sea as revealed by satellite and in situ observations
Authors: Heping Liu, Wei Yang, Hao Wei, Chengfei Jiang, Changgen Liu, Liang Zhao
In this work authors examines the characteristics, statistics, and mixing effects of internal solitary waves observed in the northern Yellow Sea during the summers of 2018 and 2019. Among other things authors demonstrates that the estimated ISW propagation speed ranges from 0.16 to 0.25 m s-1, which agrees with the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) model.
The manuscript is very well-written and in my opinion is almost ready for publication on Remote Sensing. I therefore suggest only some minor changes:
1 1) In Figure 1(a) at page 3, I suggest authors to add scale of distances and orientation (NSEW).
2 2) In the Figures 5 and 6 (d) only the orientation bar is necessary indicating at least the direction of the North.
3 3) The same change suggested at point 1) is in my opinion necessary in Figure 10 (a).
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Reviewer 3 Report
This manuscript describes the quantitative characteristics of internal solitary waves studied by using T-chain temperature and depth sensors equipped to the mooring station as well as by using SAR imaging, which merit publication in Remote Sensing. For the benefit of the reader, however, several points need clarifying and certain statements require further justification. Those are given below.
1. 2.3 SAR images: Observation of SAR images should be an important point to identify the internal solitary waves, however, the images such as Figures 5 and 12 are relatively dark and are difficult to identify the solitary waves. Are there any possibility to brighten them.
2. Lines 306-308 (4.1 Statistics of ISWs): It seems that ISWs are observed more frequently at Stn. B4 as shown in Figure 7 (e), (f) and Figure 8, which is inconsistent with descriptions in the manuscript. Please comment on this point
3. Lines 476-479: The authors state that peaks in the pycnocline correspond to the high frequency temperature variations. Actually the first peak correspmds to the tem@erature fluctuations as shown in Figure 12 (c), however, the second peak is not clear its correlation and also there are another period which is not clear correlation between peaks and temperature fluctuations. Please discuss this points.
4. Lines 105-106: “---- three temperature sensors ----” will be “----- two temperature sensors ----“, which is shown in Figure 1(c).
5. Figure 7 (c): The vertical axis “IWs” will be “ISWs”.
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