Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 27, issue 9
Articles | Volume 27, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-1723-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-1723-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 27, issue 9
Research article
 | 
03 May 2023
Research article |  | 03 May 2023

Water and energy budgets over hydrological basins on short and long timescales

Samantha Petch, Bo Dong, Tristan Quaife, Robert P. King, and Keith Haines

Data sets

GRDC Reference Dataset GRDC https://www.bafg.de/GRDC/EN/04_spcldtbss/43_GRfN/refDataset_node.html

Remotely sensed ensemble of the water cycle R. Abolafia-Rosenzweig and B. Livneh https://doi.org/10.17632/r24rdxt73j.3

Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Climate Data Record (CDR), Version 2.3 (Monthly) R. Adler, J.-J. Wang, M. Sapiano, G. Huffman, L. Chiu, P. P. Xie, R. Ferraro, U. Schneider, A. Becker, D. Bolvin, E. Nelkin, G. Gu, and NOAA CDR Program https://doi.org/10.7289/V56971M6

FLUXCOM Global Land Energy Fluxes M. Jung https://doi.org/10.17871/FLUXCOM_EnergyFluxes_v1

Conserving Land-Atmosphere Synthesis Suite (CLASS) v 1.1 (2019) S. Hobeichi, G. Abramowitz, and J. Evans https://doi.org/10.25914/5c872258dc183

Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) Top-of-Atmosphere (TOA) Edition-4.0 Data Product (2018) N. Loeb, D. Doelling, H. Wang, W. Su, C. Nguyen, J. Corbett, L. Liang, C. Mitrescu, F. Rose, and S. Kato https://ceres-tool.larc.nasa.gov/ord-tool/jsp/EBAFTOA42Selection.jsp

Model code and software

sammypetch/Water-and-energy-budgets: v2 S. Petch https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7682197

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Short summary
Gravitational measurements of water storage from GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) can improve understanding of the water budget. We produce flux estimates over large river catchments based on observations that close the monthly water budget and ensure consistency with GRACE on short and long timescales. We use energy data to provide additional constraints and balance the long-term energy budget. These flux estimates are important for evaluating climate models.
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