GloFAS-ERA5 operational global river discharge reanalysis 1979–present

Harrigan, Shaun; Zsoter, Ervin; Alfieri, Lorenzo; Prudhomme, Christel; Salamon, Peter; Wetterhall, Fredrik; Barnard, Christopher; Cloke, Hannah; Pappenberger, Florian

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2043-2020

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2043-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2043-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

Data description paper

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07 Sep 2020

Data description paper |

| 07 Sep 2020

GloFAS-ERA5 operational global river discharge reanalysis 1979–present

Shaun Harrigan, Ervin Zsoter, Lorenzo Alfieri, Christel Prudhomme, Peter Salamon, Fredrik Wetterhall, Christopher Barnard, Hannah Cloke, and Florian Pappenberger

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RC1: 'Comments on “GloFAS-ERA5 operational global river discharge reanalysis 1979-present” by Harrigan et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 31 Mar 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to RC1', Shaun Harrigan, 24 Jun 2020
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 09 Apr 2020
AC2: 'Reply to RC2', Shaun Harrigan, 24 Jun 2020

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AR by Shaun Harrigan on behalf of the Authors (28 Jun 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (01 Jul 2020) by David Carlson

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.