CWATM v1.04 - 0.5 deg dataset

CWATM dataset for version 1.04
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   CWATM_Data
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   ¦-  README.txt
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   +- climate_rhine ( a cut rhine cliamte data set, description see below)
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   ¦   +- precipitation, average daily temperature, potential evaporation   
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   +- output
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   +- input_data
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      +---areamaps
       ¦   ¦-  globalarea,rhine30min, ...
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       +---landcover
       ¦   +---forest
       ¦   ¦   ¦-  CropCoefficientForest_10days
       ¦   ¦   ¦-  interceptcapForest10days
       ¦   ¦   ¦-  maxRootdepth, minSoilDepthFrac
       ¦   ¦   ¦-  rootFraction1, rootFraction2
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       ¦   +---grassland (same var as forest)
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       ¦   +---irrNonPaddy (same var as forest)
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       ¦   +---irrPaddy (same var as forest)
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       +---landsurface   
       ¦   ¦- fractionlandcover, global_clone
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       ¦   +---albedo
       ¦   ¦   ¦- albedo
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       ¦   +---topo
       ¦   ¦   ¦- dz_Rel_hydro1k, elvstd, tanslope
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       +---groundwater   
       ¦   ¦- kSatAquifer, recessionCoeff, specificYield
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       +---soil   
       ¦   ¦- alpha1-3, lambda1-3, ksat1-3,thetas1-3, thetar1-3 for forest and for other landcover
       ¦   ¦- cropgrp, percolationImp, storagedepth
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       +---routing   
           ¦- ldd, catchment, cellarea
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           +---kinematic
           ¦   ¦- chanbnkf, chanbw, changrad, chanleng, chanman
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       +---lakereservoirs
           ¦- lakeResArea, lakeResDis,lakeResID, lakeResType, lakeResVolRes, lakeResYear
           ¦- smalllakeResArea, smalllakeResDis,smalllakeResID, smalllakeResType, smalllakeResVolRes, smalllakeResYear

PLEASE RUN:
run_rhine30min.bat or run_rhine30min.sh (for Linux)
if necessary you have to change pathes in run_rhine30min.bat or run_rhine30min.sh or settings_rhine30min.ini (line 87-91)

CLIMATE DATA SET
Daily-resolution observed climate data on  (land only) 0.5°x0.5° lat-lon grid,
HERE: Only for the Rhine catchment

based on the reanalysis data set ERA-Interim and using the bias target GPCC.
The data set covers the period 1901-2012, where the data for 1901-1978 are taken from WFD, and from 1979 onwards from WFDEI.GPCC

Data Type: Daily observed atmospheric climate
Variables:
tavg: Avg. Temperature [K]
pr: precipitation (snowfall + rain)  [kg m-2 s-1]
ET_Ref: Potential reference evapotranspiration rate (Penman–Monteith equations)
EW_ref: Potential evaporation rate from water surface ( Penman–Monteith equations)

HERE: a dataset from 1/1/1961- 31/12/2010 with each parameter in a single netcdf file.

Weedon, G.P., S.S. Gomes, P.P. Viterbo, W.J. Shuttleworth, E.E. Blyth, H.H. Österle, J.C. Adam, N.N. Bellouin, O.O. Boucher,
and M.M. Best, 2011:
Creation of the WATCH Forcing Data and Its Use to Assess Global and Regional Reference Crop Evaporation over Land during the
Twentieth Century. J. Hydrometeor., 12, 823–848, doi: 10.1175/2011JHM1369.1

Related Sites:
https://www.isimip.org/gettingstarted/details/5/
http://www.waterandclimatechange.eu/about/watch-forcing-data-20th-century

But any other climate data can be used!