Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 27, issue 20
Articles | Volume 27, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-3743-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-3743-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 27, issue 20
Research article
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25 Oct 2023
Research article |  | 25 Oct 2023

Assessment of pluri-annual and decadal changes in terrestrial water storage predicted by global hydrological models in comparison with the GRACE satellite gravity mission

Julia Pfeffer, Anny Cazenave, Alejandro Blazquez, Bertrand Decharme, Simon Munier, and Anne Barnoud

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The GRACE (Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment) satellite mission enabled the quantification of water mass redistributions from 2002 to 2017. The analysis of GRACE satellite data shows here that slow changes in terrestrial water storage occurring over a few years to a decade are severely underestimated by global hydrological models. Several sources of errors may explain such biases, likely including the inaccurate representation of groundwater storage changes.
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