Country-ocean-moisture-flows-reconciled-with-ERA5-reanalysis obtained processing Lagrangian moisture connections

The dataset "Reconciled global atmospheric moisture flows between countries/oceans and subcontinents" presents tracked volumes of precipitation and evaporation reconciled with reanalysis data, closing the annual hydrological balance, and provides robust estimates of terrestrial moisture recycling and net moisture flows to support global water governance analysis. This repository is supplement to a study by De Petrillo & Fahrländer et al. (2025), which describes the development of the reconciliation framework, includes a perfromance analysis of the method and shows an exemplary case study on the published data. The atmospheric moisture flows are sourced from the UTrack atmospheric moisture flow dataset by Tuinenburg et al. (2020a) (dataset access: Tuinenburg et al., 2020b) and reconciled with ERA5 precipitation and evaporation data (Hersbach et al., 2020) on the mean annual basis in the period 2008-2017, by means of a post-processing framework, based on the Iterative Proportional Fitting (IPF) algorithm. NOTE: The final dataset is available in form of bilateral matrices (country/ocean and subcontinent/ocean) and in form of direct flows (flow edges). Supporting material to read the dataset is in the folder "List" . Input processed ERA5 data (where the precipitation-evaporation annual balance is met) are also available. References: De Petrillo, E., Fahrländer, S., Tuninetti, M., Andersen, L.S., Monaco, L., Ridolfi, L., Laio, F. (2025). Reconciling tracked atmospheric moisture flows to close the global freshwater cycle. Tuinenburg, O. A., Theeuwen, J. J. E., & Staal, A. (2020a). High-resolution global atmospheric moisture connections from evaporation to precipitation. Earth System Science Data, 12(4), 3177–3188. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3177-2020 Tuinenburg, O. A., Theeuwen, J. J. E., Staal, A. (2020b): Global evaporation to precipitation flows obtained with Lagrangian atmospheric moisture tracking. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.912710 Hersbach, H., Bell, B., Berrisford, P., Hirahara, S., Horányi, A., Muñoz‐Sabater, J., et al. (2020). The ERA5 global reanalysis. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 146(730), 1999–2049. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3803