Data for Manuscript entitled "Satellite evidence of unequal basin-scale recovery from severe droughts"

This dataset supports the study on the assessment of whether—and how—global river basins recover from recent extreme droughts through an observation-based analytical framework. It contains data and code used for analysis and visualization in Figures 1 to 4 of the associated manuscript. For more details, please contact: [e-mail]. 1. Data F1/ – Figure 1 data Fig1a_percent_recovery.csv: Percentage of basin-scale drought events classified as recovered vs. unrecovered. Fig1b_recovered_maximum.csv: Recovery time for recovered drought events with maximum loss. Fig1c_recovered_earliest.csv: Time under incomplete recovery for the earliest identified event. F2/ – Figure 2 data Fig2beh_recovered_maximum.csv: Basin-level metrics for recovered events (with maximum loss). Fig2cfi_recovered_all.csv: Basin-level metrics for all recovered droughts. F3/ – Figure 3 data F3a_cross_basin_summary.csv: Summary statistics for cross-basin predictability. F3b_within_basin_correlation.csv: Correlation of recovery with drivers within basins. F3c_driver_contribution_*.csv: Relative contributions of precipitation (Pr), evapotranspiration (ET), and their covariance to water availability recovery across aridity gradients. F4/ – Figure 4 data F4ac_drought_unrecovery.csv: Number of basin-scale extreme drought events during 2003–2024 and percentage of incomplete recovery. F4b_group_by_aridity.csv: Recovery status grouped by dryland and non-dryland basins. F4d_group_by_endorheic.csv: Recovery status grouped by exorheic and endorheic basins. drought/ – Drought indices and extreme drought events basin_*_spei06.csv: SPEI-based drought series from multiple sources (CRU-TS, ERA5-Land, MSWEP+GLEAM, and ensemble median). extreme_drought_events_*.csv: Detected extreme drought events. TWSA/ – TWS anomalies data_TWSA_all.csv: Raw TWS anomaly data from CSR, JPL, and GSFC, including two gap-filled datasets (GF_climSSA, GF_DL). data_TWSA_all_filled.csv: Gap-filled TWSA. data_TWSA_all_filled_stl.csv: Seasonally decomposed TWSA using STL. TWSrecovery/ – TWS recovery assessments TWSA_recovery_all_[90/95/100].csv: Recovery analysis under different datasets and thresholds. TWSA_recovery_one_95.csv: Median recovery assessment across data sources and thresholds. WA/ – Water availability analysis wa.csv: Raw monthly water availability (WA) aggregated from different sources. Units: mm/month. wa_attribution_data_attr.csv: WA data during drought periods (units: cm/month) and basin static attributes for attribution analysis. hydrosheds/ – Basin attributes basin_attr.csv: Static basin-level attributes. basins_large_clean.*: Shapefiles of major global basins (ESRI format). 2. Code for Figures 1–4 F1-recovery_time.R F2-recovery_metrics_one.R F3-wa_attribution.R F4-attribution_unrecovery.R plot_shp.R — used for creating shapefile-based maps throughout the figures. 3. Figures figures/ — Raw output of figures.