Inversion of Regional Groundwater Storage Changes Based on the Fusion of GNSS and GRACE Data: A Case Study of Shaanxi–Gansu–Ningxia

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

I Suggestminor changes

.Pag 3 line 117-120. Please add references (publication, or link to the web-page,

Page 4 line 152. Please explain why the GLDAS NOAH was adopted.

Page 4 WGHM. Please add references to the source

Page 5 Kn load LOVE number please add value.

Page 5 Line 197-200 The description of the method should be more detailed. For example-please explain how the effective deformation signal is extracted.

Figures 3,4,5 It would be nice if the description of the x-axis included dates

Figure 6 Axis description should be enlarged, please add units

Author Response

Dear Editor and reviewers:

Thanks for your valuable comments about our manuscript. We have carefully considered your reviewer comments and made changes accordingly. All revisions are highlighted in red in the manuscript. Meanwhile, a point-to-point response to comments is attached. Please see the attachment.

If any problem, please feel free to contact us.

 

Best regards,

--Qiuying Guo.

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Reviewer 2 Report

All comments are given in attached file.

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Dear Editor and reviewers:

Thanks for your valuable comments about our manuscript. We have carefully considered your reviewer comments and made changes accordingly. All revisions are highlighted in red in the manuscript. Meanwhile, a point-to-point response to comments is attached. Please see the attachment.

If any problem, please feel free to contact us.

 

Best regards,

--Qiuying Guo.

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Reviewer 3 Report

Morniting Groundwater Storage Changes using GNSS/GRACE is a hot topic, and the authors did a good job on it. but the current manuscript is far from publication, my coments are:

1.Error! Reference source not found: the authors need to be more rigorous and should not make such low-level mistakes. The author did not check carefully before submitting.

2.Line 46 CWS: The full name needs to be given again, although it is mentioned in the abstract. Other abbreviations should also be checked for the first time

 

3.Conventional methods for monitoring：please provide references

 

4.GAMIT/GLOBK software[18]：10.5  or 10.7?

 

5.Figures 6, 8, 9...:need improved the plots,Higher resolution

 

6.Figure 9, 10 (just as excmple) the results need to be analyzed, add more discussions, not just listed itneed discussion.

In Figure 10 why there existed large change in 2012-05, 2013-08, etc

 

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Dear Editor and reviewers:

Thanks for your valuable comments about our manuscript. We have carefully considered your reviewer comments and made changes accordingly. All revisions are highlighted in red in the manuscript. Meanwhile, a point-to-point response to comments is attached.  Please see the attachment.

If any problem, please feel free to contact us.

 

Best regards,

--Qiuying Guo.

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

I accept all changes.

Reviewer 3 Report

The authors has replied to all my comments and improved the manuscript, just small issules to be fixed before publication.

1.when i download the pdf from RS system, i found in page 2, line 51-53: cance to pay attention to the trend of GWS changes in China[1]. Conventional methods for 51 monitoring GWS changes mainly include pressure gauge measurement and ground net-52 work measurement[55]Error! Reference source not found.. It is difficult to monitor the change in large-53.

Table 1. The main parameters used in the GAMIT calculationError! Reference source not found.[38]. 140

0.7260 and - 239

0.6930Error! Reference source not found..

Please check it, does this caused by the submision system? To many such errors....

Error! Reference source not found..  the error i mentioned before still existed.

2. some figures like Figure 11 still need with high quality