Basin-scale water-balance dataset (BSWB): an update

Hirschi, Martin; Seneviratne, Sonia I.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-251-2017

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-251-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-251-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

30 Mar 2017

| 30 Mar 2017

Basin-scale water-balance dataset (BSWB): an update

Martin Hirschi and Sonia I. Seneviratne

Data sets

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

Short summary

Terrestrial water storage comprises all forms of water storage on land surfaces, and its seasonal and inter-annual variations are mostly determined by soil moisture, groundwater, snow cover, and surface water. Soil moisture, especially, contributes to land--atmosphere coupling in an essential way. This paper presents an update of a basin-scale diagnostic dataset of monthly variations in terrestrial water storage for large river basins worldwide.