The fate of land evaporation - A global dataset ...

• Main Authors: Link, Andreas, van der Ent, Ruud, Berger, Markus, Eisner, Stephanie, Finkbeiner, Matthias
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2019
• Subjects: atmospheric moisture; fate of evaporation; numerical moisture tracking; precipitation; Antarc*; Antarctica; Greenland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.908705; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.908705

This work provides a global dataset on the fate of land evaporation for a fine-meshed grid of source and receptor cells. The dataset was created through a global run of the numerical moisture tracking model WAM-2layers. The tracking was conducted on a 1.5° * 1.5° grid and was based on reanalysis data from the ERA-Interim database. Climatic input data were incorporated in 3 respectively 6-hour time steps and represent the time period from 2001 to 2018. The tracking direction was forwards in time and the geographical borders of the model were located at +/- 79.5° latitude. As a result of the model run, the annual as well as the monthly average fate of evaporation was determined for 8684 land grid cells (all land cells except those located within Greenland and Antarctica) and provided via source-receptor matrices. The gained dataset was complemented via an aggregation to country and basin scales in order to highlight possible usages for areas of interest larger than grid cells. This resulted in data for 265 ...