Coarse and Fine Particulate Organic Matter Transport by a Fourth-Order Mountain Stream to Lake Bourget (France)
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
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Title
The Title reflects the paper’s content accurately.
Abstract
The Abstract determines the paper’s content and objectives in a very manifest and complete fashion.
- Introduction
The Introduction is adequate, highly informative and well referenced.
- Materials and Methods
The Case study (Leysse River and catchment) in Section 2.1 is well documented.
In Section 2.2 the beginning of a high flow event (>0.3 m3 s-1 h-1) and its duration are reasonably defined.
In Section 2.4 the apparatus described is technically sound.
- Results
Strahler order should be referenced e.g. (Strahler 1957). The 3.1-3.5 segmentation adds to the good presentation of results.
- Discussion
This section was erroneously labelled as section 5. The discussion is exhaustive.
There is no Conclusions section which should be added
References
Strahler, Arthur N. 1957. “Quantitative Analysis of Watershed Geomorphology.” Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 38 (6): 913–20.
Author Response
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Reviewer 2 Report
Dear colleagues, I have studied your paper.
First of all, I must say that I am not a specialist in exactly this problem.
However, your paper is easy to read and understand for the entire professional public, which I appreciate. Its results and conclusions are very clearly publishable.
Nevertheless, I would like to make a few small comments.
In the abstract, especially in its second part, please highlight more the novelty of the information obtained.
So please develop the idea from the last sentence of the abstract.
The introduction is brief but reasonable. I think it contains all the necessary information.
The methodological part is successful and clear.
I have only a few small remarks on the result part.
Here, I think it would be appropriate to attach a short final summary, the results are divided in this way ...
For graph 3, a different color resolution would be appropriate, it would improve the visibility of the data ...
Overall, I find the paper useful and I recommend it for publication.
Author Response
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