Meteorological Effects of a Lake in A Permafrost Basin: Difference of Seasonal Freeze–Thaw Cycles in Hovsgol Lake and Darhad Basin, Northern Mongolia
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear Authors;
Frankly, I like the subject and believe it is within the aims and scope of Water. Therefore, I would suggest the Authors to address the following comments/suggestions to improve the scientific merit of the manuscript. Thereafter, the manuscript gets ready for publication.
Abstract: This section can start with a general problem statement instead of the specific objectives. Please revise.
Abstract: This section can end with some implications of the findings in a broader context. For example, what can others learn from your investigation? How can they apply your findings to their own case studies?
Introduction: I would suggest the authors to place this work into a broader setting. The literature review does help in this regard. Please extend Introduction and review further studies conducted previously.
Line 38: Please double check and ensure about the number given for the average annual temperature.
Line 38: Precipitation or snowfall? Can you please describe?
Lines 46-48: Please support this section with appropriate references.
Section 2.1 Study area: Can you please given more information about the lake (mean depth, maximum depth, ice-covered period, and water clarity)?
Line 80: Any justification for selection of the study period (August 2000 to October 2015)? Please explain.
Line 95: How did you calculate the freezing and thawing dates of the lake water?
Section 2.2. Survey and Analysis Methods: Any measurement of water temperature? Can you please describe better about the measurement data?
4.1 Date of Occurrence of Meteorological Events Related to Freezing and Thawing: Please compare the calculated ice-on/off dates with the results reported in other high-latitude lakes such as “Strong warming rates in the surface and bottom layers of a boreal lake: results from approximately six decades of measurements (1964‐2020)” and “Six decades of thermal change in a pristine lake situated north of the Arctic Circle”. You can address the suggested papers in Introduction as well.
Conclusions: Any suggestion for future works?
Please carefully go through the References and make sure they are consistent with the guidelines suggested by the journal.
Good luck
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear Authors
I would thank the Authors for making a full revision. My suggestion is acceptance.
Congratulations to the Authors.
Best Regards
Author Response
Thank you for your conments.
Reviewer 2 Report
I must not have been clear in my previous comments. Let me be clear now.
First major point is the discussion is not a discussion, it's more results. I strongly recommend combining the results and discussion and embedding what are listed in the conclusions (which has some material meant for a true discussion) into the new results and discussion section where necessary.
Second, I think you should treat the potential auto-correlation in your temperature data more seriously in your manuscript. I have no issue if it's true that auto-correlation is not actually a big deal for your regressions (really I suspect your R2 are inflated - but maybe I'm wrong), but that needs to be demonstrated numerically and specifically in your manuscript. Something like an auto-correlation function showing AC doesn't matter, or something else will make your work stronger.
Third, the manuscript needs a thorough proof-read. There are still some typos, spelling errors, incomplete sentences, and other sentences with poor structure.
I've also added additional comments to the pdf
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Author Response
Dear Ms. Isla Xu,
I upload the revised manuscript and the response to reviewer 2.
Please confirm the completion of upload for these two files.
Thank you.
Takeda
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