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Corrigendum to
“Does the Budyko curve reflect a maximum-power state of
hydrological systems? A backward analysis” published in Hydrol.
Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 479–486, 2016
M. Westhoff1 , E. Zehe2 , P. Archambeau1 , and B. Dewals1
1 Department of Hydraulics in Environmental and Civil Engineering (HECE), University of Liege (ULg), Liege, Belgium
2 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

Correspondence to: M. Westhoff (martijn.westhoff@ulg.ac.be)

Published: 7 March 2016

In the article “Does the Budyko curve reflect a maximum- References

power state of hydrological systems? A backward analysis”,
published in Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 479–486, 2016, Devlin, R.: Plant Physiology, 3rd Edn., D. Van Nostrand Company,
there are wrong figures displayed. The correct figures should New York, 1975.
be as follows.

μatm = −0.1 [L] μatm = −1.0 [L]

0.1 1 0 20
Gradient Ge [L]

Gradient G [L]
r
0 0.5 −0.5 10

−0.1 0 −1 0
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1

μ = −2.0 [L] μ = −3.0 [L]

atm atm
−1 100 −2 20
Gradient Ge [L]

Gradient G [L]

Ge
r

−1.5 50 −2.5 Gr 10
h*

−2 0 −3 0
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
h [−] h [−]

Figure 1. The gradients driving evaporation (Ge ) and run-off (Gr ) as a function of the relative saturation (h) for different values of µatm with
kr = kr∗ . At h = 0, the slope of the gradient Ge is vertical, while the value of Gr is set to zero to avoid run-off at zero saturation.

Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.

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1.4
(a) 1 (b) h
1.2 Gr

Relative saturation (h) [−]

0.8 Ge−µa

and gradient (G) [L]

1

0.6
E /Qin [−]
0.8

0.6
a

0.4
0.4
0.2
Analytical curve 0.2
Forward mode
0 0
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 0 2 4 6 8 10
Epot /Q in [−] Time [T ]

Figure 2. (a) Analytical Budyko curve (Eq. 9) and result from forward mode with constant forcing and (b) time evolution of relative saturation
and both gradients for complete initial saturation (solid lines) and initial dry state (dashed lines). µatm = −0.7.

0.9 1

0.8 0.9

0.7 0.8

0.6 Analytical (tdry=0) 0.7

Ea/Qin [−]

Analytical
tdry=4 months
0.6 tevap=06 months
Ea/Qin [−]

0.5 tdry=5 months

tevap=07 months
tdry=6 months 0.5
0.4 tevap=08 months
tdry=7 months
tevap=09 months
0.3 tdry=8 months 0.4
tevap=10 months
MOPEX t =4 months
dry tevap=11 months
0.2 0.3
MOPEX tdry=5 months
MOPEX tevap=9 months
MOPEX tdry=6 months 0.2
0.1 MOPEX tevap=10 months
Mupfure tdry=7 months
MOPEX tevap=11 months
0 0.1
Ourthe tevap=9 months
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5
Epot/Qin [−] 0
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3
E /Q [−]
pot in
Figure 3. Sensitivity to periodic dry spells in the forward model.
MOPEX catchments are filtered to have only those catchments hav- Figure 4. Sensitivity to on–off dynamics in actual evaporation
ing at least 1 month with a median rainfall < 2.5 mm month−1 and in the forward model. MOPEX catchments were filtered to have
a coefficient of variance < 0.5 for all months with a median rain- only those catchments having a coefficient of variance < 0.12 for
fall > 25 mm month−1 . The final number of dry months was de- monthly median rainfall and with at least 1 month with a median
termined by maximizing the difference between the mean monthly maximum air temperature < 0 ◦ C; a month is considered to have no
precipitation of the X driest months minus the mean monthly pre- actual evaporation if the monthly median maximum air temperature
cipitation of the 1 − X wettest months, where X = 1, 2 . . . 12. Error < 0 ◦ C (after Devlin, 1975). Error bars indicate 1 standard deviation
bars indicate 1 standard deviation and are determined with bootstrap and are determined with bootstrap sampling.
sampling.

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