Articles | Volume 28, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-1-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-1-2024
Research article
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02 Jan 2024
Research article |  | 02 Jan 2024

Water cycle changes in Czechia: a multi-source water budget perspective

Mijael Rodrigo Vargas Godoy, Yannis Markonis, Oldrich Rakovec, Michal Jenicek, Riya Dutta, Rajani Kumar Pradhan, Zuzana Bešťáková, Jan Kyselý, Roman Juras, Simon Michael Papalexiou, and Martin Hanel

Data sets

MiRoVaGo/ugc_cwc: v1.0.0 (v1.0.0) M. R. Vargas Godoy https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10438307

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The study introduces a novel benchmarking method based on the water cycle budget for hydroclimate data fusion. Using this method and multiple state-of-the-art datasets to assess the spatiotemporal patterns of water cycle changes in Czechia, we found that differences in water availability distribution are dominated by evapotranspiration. Furthermore, while the most significant temporal changes in Czechia occur during spring, the median spatial patterns stem from summer changes in the water cycle.