A Comparative Study of Water and Bromide Transport in a Bare Loam Soil Using Lysimeters and Field Plots

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Manuscript title "A comparative study of water and bromide transport in a bare loam soil using lysimeters and field plots"  fits the journal scope and aim. The study is well planned and manuscript is well presented. The manuscript can be termed as average-good quality with reasonable  interest to the reader. I suggest manuscript to be accepted in the current form. 

Author Response

Dear reviewer,

Thank you for your review.
The revised version of the manuscript modified according to the review reports has been sent by 30 May 2019.

Best regards,
The authors

Reviewer 2 Report

In relation to the contents, I do not observe any manifestly improvable aspect.

His work contains a great experimental load and an adequate mathematical treatment of the data.

Just point out some formal aspects:

The equations are written in different font sizes.  Please put them all with similar font and size.

It is also a bit confusing to use the comma behind each equation. It can be confused with some aspect of the variable. I think they should be deleted.

In general, in the text, variables are usually in italics. However, some of them are written in normal script. Example lines 86, 87, 128, 129, 138, 139, 140, to mention just a few. Please use the same criteria throughout the text.

Why do the comments under the title of each table have a smaller font?

The tables seem to have a different format (e.g. table 6 is different from the rest).

Author Response

Dear reviewer,

Thank you for your review.
Regarding the formal aspects mentioned in your review, the following changes have been made in the revised version:
- The comma behind each equation are deleted
- Variables are now written in italics everywhere
- Tables are put in similar format
- The comments below the title of each table and each figure are smaller in order to differentiate them from the main title, which, we believe, simplifies the readability of the manuscript.
For your information, we couldn’t put all the equations in a similar size with Word.

The revised version of the manuscript modified according to the review reports has been sent by 30 May 2019.

Best regards,
The authors

Reviewer 3 Report

Dear authors,

attached you find a pdf of your manuscript including my main comments and suggestions. Regarding the overall structure of the manuscript, I suggest to shorten the text where possible and to check again the English. I also provide you with some notes how to improve clarity of the text and I suggest to better work out what is really new.

I am looking forward to review the manuscript in the 2nd round.

Kind regards, Reviewer 1

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Dear reviewer,

Thank you for your review.
Regarding your comments, please find attached the answers to your comments and information on the corrections which were made in the revised version

The revised version of the manuscript modified according to the review reports has been sent by 30 May 2019.

Best regards,
The authors

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf