GRACE-REC: a reconstruction of climate-driven water storage changes over the last century

Humphrey, Vincent; Gudmundsson, Lukas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1153-2019

Articles | Volume 11, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1153-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1153-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 3

Data description paper

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02 Aug 2019

Data description paper |

| 02 Aug 2019

GRACE-REC: a reconstruction of climate-driven water storage changes over the last century

Vincent Humphrey and Lukas Gudmundsson

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1153-2019-supplement

Data sets

GRACE-REC: a reconstruction of climate-driven water storage changes over the last century V. Humphrey and L. Gudmundsson https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7670849

The Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata Archive - Part 1: Station catalog and Catchment boundary H. X. Do, L. Gudmundsson, M. Leonard, and S. Westra https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.887477

BSWB v2016 M. Hirschi and S. I. Seneviratne https://doi.org/10.5905/ethz-1007-82

Short summary

Because changes in freshwater availability can impact many natural ecosystems and human activities, it is crucial to better understand long-term changes in the water cycle. This dataset is a reconstruction of past changes in land water storage over the last century, obtained by combining satellite observations with historical weather data. It can be used to investigate both regional changes in freshwater availability or drought frequency and long-term changes in the global water cycle.