Reply to Comment on On the Estimation of Potential Evaporation Under Wet and Dry Conditions by Jozsef Szilagyi

We appreciate Dr. Szilagyi's interest in our work of recovering surface temperature and evaporation to a hypothetical saturated condition. Dr. Szilagyi criticized our approach by arguing that the recovered surface temperature is unphysically low. Here we reply to Dr. Szilagyi's concern by showing that our recovered surface temperature is not unphysically low and is physically attainable. In addition, our approach strictly follows the definition of potential evaporation by Wilfried Brutsaert (2015).

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This paper responds to Dr. Szilagyi's criticism of their approach and demonstrates that the recovered surface temperature is not unphysically low, but is physically attainable. Furthermore, their approach adheres strictly to Wilfried Brutsaert's (2015) definition of potential evaporation.