Short communication: flow as distributed lines within the landscape

Armitage, John J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-67-2019

Articles | Volume 7, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-67-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-67-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 7, issue 1

Short communication

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17 Jan 2019

Short communication |

| 17 Jan 2019

Short communication: flow as distributed lines within the landscape

John J. Armitage

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Final revised paper (published on 17 Jan 2019)
Preprint (discussion started on 27 Jun 2018)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of Armitage, RIVERS AS LINES WITHIN THE LANDSCAPE', Liran Goren, 11 Jul 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to review by L. Goren', John Armitage, 10 Sep 2018
RC2: 'Referee review', Andrew Wickert, 19 Aug 2018
- AC2: 'Reply to review by A. Wickert', John Armitage, 10 Sep 2018
EC1: 'Please submit a revision', Jean Braun, 24 Sep 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by John Armitage on behalf of the Authors (22 Oct 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (08 Nov 2018) by Jean Braun

RR by Andrew Wickert (20 Nov 2018)

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (01 Dec 2018)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (11 Dec 2018) by Jean Braun

AR by John Armitage on behalf of the Authors (20 Dec 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (21 Dec 2018) by Jean Braun

ED: Publish as is (21 Dec 2018) by Niels Hovius (Editor)

AR by John Armitage on behalf of the Authors (04 Jan 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

Landscape evolution models (LEMs) aim to capture an aggregation of the processes of erosion and deposition and predict evolving topography. A key aspect of any LEM is how water is chosen to be routed down the surface, which can impact the model results and, importantly, the numerical accuracy. I find that by treating flow as lines within the model domain and by distributing water down all slopes, the results are independent of resolution, pointing to a new method to model landscape evolution.