Regional-scale assessment of groundwater recharge and the water balance for Austria

Version 1.0 - This version is the final revised one. 

This dataset accompanies the paper: Zeitfogel et al. (2025), Regional-scale assessmentof groundwater recharge and the water balance for Austria, published at Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies.

The dataset includes spatially distributed maps of groundwater recharge rates, precipitation, runoff, and actual evapotranspiration for Austria, resulting from an Austria-wide implementation of the rainfall-runoff model COSERO. By downloading these datasets, you acknowledge that neither the authors nor the providers of the source datasets can be held liable for the accuracy or completeness of the data.

The model parameterization of soil information was based on regionalized soil hydraulic property maps.

The basins_info file provides spatial information about the delinated model basins, the corresponding gauges, and the calibration stages. 

This study was funded by the Austrian Academy of Science (Project RechAUT), the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Regions and Tourism (Project InfCapAT), and by the Austrian Climate Research Program (ACRP) - 14th call, under grant agreement No. KR21KB0K00001 (HyMELT-CC).