Articles | Volume 11, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1153-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1153-2019
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

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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.