Review of the revised version of the manuscript gmd-2016-300
The Analytical Objective Hysteresis Model (AnOHM v1.0): Methodology to Determine Bulk Storage Heat Flux Coefficients
By Ting Sun et al.
The authors have revised the manuscript. However, I have the feeling the revised version still contains the main deficiencies that I have mentioned in my previous review. The justification for ignoring the re-emitted downwelling longwave radiation in the upwelling longwave radiation has been addressed, but still ignoring this term is physically wrong. In addition, the readability of the paper has not improved in my view; it is still a long list of equations that are sometimes poorly connected. For example section 3.1 could have literally been copied from a mathematics book, but the link with the AnOHM parameter estimation is missing. I suggest te authors improve the description of all steps that lead to the analytical solutions provided.
Moreover the paper lacks a clear research question and some justification for the need to do this research, i.e. what can now be done with the AnOHM that was not possible before with the original OHM, and why an analytical approach is the most feasible to answer the research question.
Moreover:
Eq. 4 and 5 should be correctly referenced, since this is not a solution of your own course.
P13, ln 3: the longwave radiation is not reflected (solely possible for shortwave radiation), but re-emitted. |