Correction of Empirical Equations Known as “Strickler-Type” for the Calculation of the Manning’s Roughness Coefficient for Costa Rica’s Northern Pacific Conditions
, Fernando Watson-Hernández 1, Isabel Guzmán-Arias 1, Laura ChavarrÃa-Pizarro 1 and Francisco Quesada-Alvarado 2Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear Authors:
The manuscript presents Correction of empirical equations known as "Strickler-type" for the calculation of the Manning's roughness coefficient for Costa Rica's northern pacific conditions, which is interesting. It is relevant and within the scope of the journal.
I believe the paper is interesting and presents good scientific picture. I recommend minor corrections suggested.
Commends Below:
Introduction:
Should be improved to show the novelty of the manuscript.
Materials and Methods:
Figure 2 should be revised. Overall is very good
Study area:
Would you please explain more the study area?
Result and Discussion:
The rest of the paper is very well written and some more points can be added in the conclusion part.
Suggestions:
I believe the paper is interesting and presents good scientific picture. I recommend minor corrections suggested.
Best of Luck
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Reviewer 2 Report
The authors present a case study of two neighbouring stream systems in Costa Rica used to model stream flows. Their findings reflect the benefits of ground-truthing components of the stream flow models in current use. The conclusions are well-supported by the data. References, tables and figures are applicable and relevant. There are minor issues with referencing, where the Harvard-type citations appear in the text: line 90, Yen (1992) should be Yen [26], for example. On line 184, [15] should be Church & Ferguson [15]. There is a extraneous comma in "field" on line 90.
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