Development of a multidecadal land reanalysis over High Mountain Asia.

ABSTRACT: Anthropogenic and climatic changes affect the water and energy cycles in High Mountain Asia (HMA), home to over two billion people and the largest reservoirs of freshwater outside the polar zone. Despite their significant importance for water management, consistent and reliable estimates of water storage and fluxes over the region are lacking because of the high uncertainties associated with the estimates of atmospheric conditions and human management. Here, we relied on multivariate data assimilation (MVDA) to provide estimates of energy and water storage and fluxes that reflect the processes occurring in the region such as greening and irrigation-driven groundwater depletion. We developed and employed an ensemble precipitation estimate by blending different precipitation products thereby

SUBMITTER: Maina FZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11283528 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature