Land and Climate Seminar - Water mass fluxes and budgets

Speaker: Jürgen Kusche, Benjamin Gutknecht

Project: D07

Ben is going to present the current state of the budget analysis framework for validation of water-mass related fluxes across the atmos-terrestrial boundary over large river basins. Systematic assessments and product cross-validation can help to identify data-inherent biases, such as offsets or phase shifts in parameters like Total Precipitation, Evapotranspiration, Terrestrial Water Storage, or River Discharge. D07 iterates these information back with producers/modellers/users so we can jointly try to understand causes. The framework might also help validate certain CRC-scenarios by means of evaluating the mis-closure of the water flux budget equation.