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Investigating water budget dynamics in 18 river basins across the Tibetan Plateau through multiple datasets
Wenbin Liu
Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes,
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Fubao Sun
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes,
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Ecology Institute of Qilian Mountain, Hexi University, Zhangye 734000, China
College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Center for Water Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing 100101, China
Yanzhong Li
College of Hydrometeorology, Nanjing University of Information
Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Guoqing Zhang
Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environmental Changes and Land Surface
Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
CAS Center for Excellent in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Beijing
100101, China
Yan-Fang Sang
Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes,
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Wee Ho Lim
Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes,
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the
Environment, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford,
Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
Jiahong Liu
Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River
Basin, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing
100038, China
Hong Wang
Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes,
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Peng Bai
Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes,
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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Short summary
The dynamics of basin-scale water budgets over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are not well understood nowadays due to the lack of hydro-climatic observations. In this study, we investigate seasonal cycles and trends of water budget components (e.g. precipitation P, evapotranspiration ET and runoff Q) in 18 TP river basins during the period 1982–2011 through the use of multi-source datasets (e.g. in situ observations, satellite retrievals, reanalysis outputs and land surface model simulations).
The dynamics of basin-scale water budgets over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are not well understood...
