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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2043-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2043-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Data description paper
| 
07 Sep 2020
Data description paper |
| 07 Sep 2020
| 07 Sep 2020
GloFAS-ERA5 operational global river discharge reanalysis 1979–present
Forecast Department, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather
Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, UK
Ervin Zsoter
Forecast Department, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather
Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, UK
Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of
Reading, Reading, UK
Lorenzo Alfieri
Disaster Risk Management Unit, European Commission Joint Research
Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy
CIMA Research Foundation, Savona, Italy
Christel Prudhomme
Forecast Department, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather
Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, UK
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), Wallingford, UK
Department of Geography and Environment, University of Loughborough, Loughborough, UK
Peter Salamon
Disaster Risk Management Unit, European Commission Joint Research
Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy
Fredrik Wetterhall
Forecast Department, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather
Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, UK
Christopher Barnard
Forecast Department, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather
Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, UK
Hannah Cloke
Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of
Reading, Reading, UK
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science, CNDS, Uppsala, Sweden
Florian Pappenberger
Forecast Department, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather
Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, UK
Data sets
River discharge and related historical data from the Global Flood Awareness System Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.a4fdd6b9
Short summary
A new river discharge reanalysis dataset is produced operationally by coupling ECMWF's latest global atmospheric reanalysis, ERA5, with the hydrological modelling component of the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS). The GloFAS-ERA5 reanalysis is a global gridded dataset with a horizontal resolution of 0.1° at a daily time step and is freely available from 1979 until near real time. The evaluation against observations shows that the GloFAS-ERA5 reanalysis was skilful in 86 % of catchments.
A new river discharge reanalysis dataset is produced operationally by coupling ECMWF's latest...
