Articles | Volume 22, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-241-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-241-2018
Research article
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12 Jan 2018
Research article |  | 12 Jan 2018

A Climate Data Record (CDR) for the global terrestrial water budget: 1984–2010

Yu Zhang, Ming Pan, Justin Sheffield, Amanda L. Siemann, Colby K. Fisher, Miaoling Liang, Hylke E. Beck, Niko Wanders, Rosalyn F. MacCracken, Paul R. Houser, Tian Zhou, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Rachel T. Pinker, Janice Bytheway, Christian D. Kummerow, and Eric F. Wood

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ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by Editor and Referees) (11 Sep 2017) by Reed Maxwell
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Short summary
A global data record for all four terrestrial water budget variables (precipitation, evapotranspiration, runoff, and total water storage change) at 0.5° resolution and monthly scale for the period of 1984–2010 is developed by optimally merging a series of remote sensing products, in situ measurements, land surface model outputs, and atmospheric reanalysis estimates and enforcing the mass balance of water. Initial validations show the data record is reliable for climate related analysis.