Response to Letter to the Editor "Comments on "Modelling soil organic carbon storage with RothC in irrigated Vertisols under cotton cropping systems in the sub-tropics" (Nimai Senapati, Nilantha R. Hulugalle, Pete Smith, Brian R. Wilson, Jagadeesh B. Yeluripati, Heiko Daniel, Subhadip Ghosh, Peter Lockwood. Soil & Tillage Research 143 (2014) 38-49)"

Abstract

Irrigation water was not included in our original publication (Senapati et al., 2014) but should have been. Though there is no irrigation water module in the Rothamsted Carbon Model (RothC) (Coleman and Jenkinson, 1996, 2008), irrigation water can be added to the precipitation input file. In this Response to Letter to the Editor, we have addressed this issue by adding irrigation water to the precipitation, and accounted to deep drainage and runoff, in simulation of soil organic carbon (SOC) storage with RothC in irrigated Vertisols under cotton cropping systems.