Pan-European groundwater to atmosphere terrestrial systems climatology from a physically consistent simulation
Open Access
- 16 December 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Scientific Data
- Vol. 6 (1), 1-9
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0328-7
Abstract
Applying the Terrestrial Systems Modeling Platform, TSMP, this study provides the first simulated long-term (1996–2018), high-resolution (~12.5 km) terrestrial system climatology over Europe, which comprises variables from groundwater across the land surface to the top of the atmosphere (G2A). The data set offers an unprecedented opportunity to test hypotheses related to short- and long-range feedback processes in space and time between the different interacting compartments of the terrestrial system. The physical consistency of simulated states and fluxes in the terrestrial system constitutes the uniqueness of the data set: while most regional climate models (RCMs) have a tendency to simplify the soil moisture and groundwater representation, TSMP explicitly simulates a full 3D soil- and groundwater dynamics, closing the terrestrial water cycle from G2A. As anthopogenic impacts are excluded, the dataset may serve as a near-natural reference for global change simulations including human water use and climate change. The data set is available as netCDF files for the pan-European EURO-CORDEX domain.Keywords
Funding Information
- Helmholtz Association (ESM project, ESM project, ESM project, ESM project, ESM project)
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