Annual memory in the terrestrial water cycle

Berghuijs, Wouter R.; Woods, Ross A.; Anderson, Bailey J.; Hemshorn de Sánchez, Anna Luisa; Hrachowitz, Markus

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1319-2025

Articles | Volume 29, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1319-2025

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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1319-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 29, issue 5

Research article

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11 Mar 2025

Research article |

| 11 Mar 2025

Annual memory in the terrestrial water cycle

Wouter R. Berghuijs, Ross A. Woods, Bailey J. Anderson, Anna Luisa Hemshorn de Sánchez, and Markus Hrachowitz

Data sets

The Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata Archive - Part 1: Station catalog and Catchment boundary H. X. Do et al. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.887477

GTWS-MLrec: Global terrestrial water storage reconstruction by machine learning from 1940 to present J. Yin https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10040927

GPCC Full Data Monthly Product Version 7.0 at 0.5°: Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historic Data U. Schneider et al. https://doi.org/10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V7_050

Short summary

Water balances of catchments will often strongly depend on their state in the recent past, but...