Articles | Volume 28, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-1-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-1-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Water cycle changes in Czechia: a multi-source water budget perspective
Mijael Rodrigo Vargas Godoy
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czechia
Yannis Markonis
Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czechia
Oldrich Rakovec
UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany
Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czechia
Michal Jenicek
Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
Riya Dutta
Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czechia
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, Dhanbad-826004, India
Rajani Kumar Pradhan
Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czechia
Zuzana Bešťáková
Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czechia
Jan Kyselý
Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czechia
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
Roman Juras
Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czechia
Simon Michael Papalexiou
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czechia
Martin Hanel
Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Short summary
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.
The study introduces a novel benchmarking method based on the water cycle budget for...