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Comment on ‘’Groundwater affects the geomorphic and hydrologic properties of coevolved landscapes” by Litwin et al.
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  • Shashank Kumar Anand,
  • Sara Bonetti,
  • Carlo Camporeale,
  • Milad Hooshyar,
  • Amilcare Porporato
Shashank Kumar Anand
Princeton University

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Sara Bonetti
Wageningen University
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Carlo Camporeale
Politecnico di Torino
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Milad Hooshyar
Princeton University,University of Central Florida
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Amilcare Porporato
Princeton University
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Abstract

In this comment, we clarify that the specific contributing area is defined in the limit of an infinitesimal contour length. We also confirm that not all solutions obtained from the minimalist landscape evolution model of Bonetti et al. (2020) are rescaled copies of each other because of the crucial role of the boundary conditions. We use dimensional analysis and numerical simulations for a case where only one horizontal length scale enters the physical law to establish this point.
Oct 2022Published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface volume 127 issue 10. 10.1029/2022JF006669