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Sensitivity of simulated global-scale freshwater fluxes and storages to input data, hydrological model structure, human water use and calibration

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Müller Schmied, H., Eisner, S., Franz, D., Wattenbach, M., Portmann, F. T., Flörke, M., Döll, P.·2014·Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

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Abstract. Global-scale assessments of freshwater fluxes and storages by hydrological models under historic climate conditions are subject to a variety of uncertainties. Using the global hydrological model WaterGAP (Water – Global Assessment and Prognosis) 2.2, we investigated the sensitivity of simulated freshwater fluxes and water storage variations to five major sources of uncertainty: climate forcing, land cover input, model structure/refinements, consideration of human water use and calibration (or no calibration) against observed mean river discharge. In a modeling experiment, five variants of the standard version of WaterGAP 2.2 were generated that differed from the standard version only regarding the investigated source of uncertainty. The basin-specific calibration approach for WaterGAP was found to have the largest effect on grid cell fluxes as well as on global AET (actual evapotranspiration) and discharge into oceans for the period 1971–2000. Regarding grid cell fluxes, climate forcing ranks second before land cover input. Global water storage trends are most sensitive to model refinements (mainly modeling of groundwater depletion) and consideration of human water use. The best fit to observed time series of monthly river discharge or discharge seasonality is obtained with the standard WaterGAP 2.2 model version which is calibrated and driven by daily reanalysis-based WFD/WFDEI (combination of Watch Forcing Data based on ERA40 and Watch Forcing Data based on ERA-Interim) climate data. Discharge computed by a calibrated model version using monthly CRU TS (Climate Research Unit time-series) 3.2 and GPCC (Global Precipitation Climatology Center) v6 climate input reduced the fit to observed discharge for most stations. Taking into account uncertainties of climate and land cover data, global 1971–2000 discharge into oceans and inland sinks ranges between 40 000 and 42 000 km3 yr−1. Global actual evapotranspiration, with 70 000 km3 yr−1, is rather unaffected by climate and land cover uncertainties. Human water use reduced river discharge by 1000 km3 yr−1, such that global renewable water resources are estimated to range between 41 000 and 43 000 km3 yr−1. The climate data sets WFD (available until 2001) and WFDEI (starting in 1979) were found to be inconsistent with respect to shortwave radiation data, resulting in strongly different actual evapotranspiration. Global assessments of freshwater fluxes and storages would therefore benefit from the development of a global data set of consistent daily climate forcing from 1900 to present.

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Authors: Müller Schmied, H., Eisner, S., Franz, D., Wattenbach, M., Portmann, F. T., Flörke, M., & Döll, P.
Affiliations: University of Kassel (DE)
GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences (DE)
Goethe University Frankfurt (DE)
Corresponding author: Eisner, S.
Franz, D.
Wattenbach, M.
ORCID: Müller Schmied, H.
Eisner, S.
Franz, D.
Wattenbach, M.
Flörke, M.
Döll, P.
Venue: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Published: 2014-09-10
Volume: 18
Issue: 9
Pages: 3511-3538
ISSN: 1027-5606 (ISSN-L)
1607-7938
DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-3511-2014
OpenAlex: W2114721961
Cited by: 415
References: 100
Citations by year: 2026: 13 · 2025: 36 · 2024: 26 · 2023: 38 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 66 · 2020: 51 · 2019: 37 · 2018: 36 · 2017: 33 · 2016: 25 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 6
FWCI: 20.29
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: gold
doi.org
Licence: cc-by
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Locations: Hydrology and earth system sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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Topics: Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geophysics › Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
Keywords: freshwater flux, model uncertainty, human water use, river discharge, actual evapotranspiration, radiative forcing, land cover, model calibration, groundwater depletion, renewable water resources, climate reanalysis data, CRU TS, shortwave radiation

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