In the revised version, the authors addressed and answered appropriately to the comments of my previous review.
I have still few comments:
1) Fig. 1 is not necessary. Just cite references.
2) The SURFEX-ISBA model is not described clearly. For instance:
a. rows 12-13, why a “single surface temperature is used to compute the different energy fluxes”? the ISBA model should give the possibility to distinguish between bare soil and vegetation types.
b. The meteorological forcing is drawn from the SAFRAN. Are you not using the meteorological data collected on the field by the eddy covariance towers for driving the model?
3) Need details on the method for land cover maps estimate. For instance, what is the “supervised classification algorithm”?
4) I already did wrote this in my previous review (the answer of the authors don’t convince me at all). Why are you not showing the LAI and ET time series for the 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 years, and only for 2006? The period 2006-2010 is characterized by interannual variability, such as it is typical in Mediterranean regions. Hence, I would like to see the model performance for all the five years, and see if the model works in the same way for all the years. It ca |