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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-2463-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-2463-2022
Data description paper
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25 May 2022
Data description paper |  | 25 May 2022

HydroSat: geometric quantities of the global water cycle from geodetic satellites

Mohammad J. Tourian, Omid Elmi, Yasin Shafaghi, Sajedeh Behnia, Peyman Saemian, Ron Schlesinger, and Nico Sneeuw

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HydroSat as a global water cycle database provides estimates of and uncertainty in geometric quantities of the water cycle: (1) surface water extent of lakes and rivers, (2) water level time series of lakes and rivers, (3) terrestrial water storage anomaly, (4) water storage anomaly of lakes and reservoirs, and (5) river discharge estimates for large and small rivers.
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