Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-797-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-797-2019
Review article
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12 Jun 2019
Review article |  | 12 Jun 2019

Merits of novel high-resolution estimates and existing long-term estimates of humidity and incident radiation in a complex domain

Helene Birkelund Erlandsen, Lena Merete Tallaksen, and Jørn Kristiansen

Data sets

HySN Helene B. Erlandsen https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1993870

Model code and software

HySN v1.0 Helene B. Erlandsen https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1435555

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Short summary
Robust estimates of runoff, snow, and evaporation rely on high-quality estimates of incoming solar and thermal radiation at the surface and near surface humidity. Taking advantage of the physical soundness of a numerical weather reanalysis and the preciseness and spatial resolution of a national gridded temperature data set, new estimates of these variables are presented for Norway. Further, existing data sets and observations are compared, emphasizing daily correlation, trends, and gradients.