GTWS-MLrec: global terrestrial water storage reconstruction by machine learning from 1940 to present

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dc.contributor.authorYin, Jiabo
dc.contributor.authorSlater, Louise J.
dc.contributor.authorKhouakhi, Abdou
dc.contributor.authorYu, Le
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Pan
dc.contributor.authorLi, Fupeng
dc.contributor.authorPokhrel, Yadu
dc.contributor.authorGentine, Pierre
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-28T14:33:08Z
dc.date.available2024-02-28T14:33:08Z
dc.date.issued2023-12-08
dc.description.abstractTerrestrial water storage (TWS) includes all forms of water stored on and below the land surface, and is a key determinant of global water and energy budgets. However, TWS data from measurements by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission are only available from 2002, limiting global and regional understanding of the long-term trends and variabilities in the terrestrial water cycle under climate change. This study presents long-term (i.e., 1940–2022) and relatively high-resolution (i.e., 0.25∘) monthly time series of TWS anomalies over the global land surface. The reconstruction is achieved by using a set of machine learning models with a large number of predictors, including climatic and hydrological variables, land use/land cover data, and vegetation indicators (e.g., leaf area index). The outcome, machine-learning-reconstructed TWS estimates (i.e., GTWS-MLrec), fits well with the GRACE/GRACE-FO measurements, showing high correlation coefficients and low biases in the GRACE era. We also evaluate GTWS-MLrec with other independent products such as the land–ocean mass budget, atmospheric and terrestrial water budget in 341 large river basins, and streamflow measurements at 10 168 gauges. The results show that our proposed GTWS-MLrec performs overall as well as, or is more reliable than, previous TWS datasets. Moreover, our reconstructions successfully reproduce the consequences of climate variability such as strong El Niño events. The GTWS-MLrec dataset consists of three reconstructions based on (a) mascons of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology, the Center for Space Research at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA; (b) three detrended and de-seasonalized reconstructions; and (c) six global average TWS series over land areas, both with and without Greenland and Antarctica. Along with its extensive attributes, GTWS_MLrec can support a wide range of geoscience applications such as better understanding the global water budget, constraining and evaluating hydrological models, climate-carbon coupling, and water resources management. GTWS-MLrec is available on Zenodo through https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10040927 (Yin, 2023).en_UK
dc.identifier.citationYin J, Slater LJ, Khouakhi A, et al., GTWS-MLrec: global terrestrial water storage reconstruction by machine learning from 1940 to present. Earth System Science Data Discussions, Volume 31, Issue 12, December 2023, 1-29en_UK
dc.identifier.issn1866-3508
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-5597-2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/20897
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherCopernicus Publicationsen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.titleGTWS-MLrec: global terrestrial water storage reconstruction by machine learning from 1940 to presenten_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2023-10-22

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