title: Continental runoff: a quality-controlled global runoff data set.
abstract: Gedney et al. attribute an increase in the twentieth-century continental runoff to the suppression of plant transpiration by CO2-induced stomatal closure, by replicating a continental runoff data set. However, we have concerns about this data set and the methods used to construct it, in addition to those already raised, which we believe may undermine their conclusions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia.
authors.forename: Murray C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Peel
authors.forename: Thomas A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: McMahon
mesh_terms: D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005618:Fresh Water / Q000032:analysis*; D017752:Greenhouse Effect; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D018526:Plant Transpiration / Q000187:drug effects*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D002245:Carbon Dioxide