Datasets used for the study: An evaluation of the importance of spatial resolution in a global climate and hydrological model based on the Rhine and Mississippi basin

This repository contains the observational data and the parameter fields for the hydrological model which is used in the study by Imme Benedict et al., 2018: An evaluation of the importance of spatial resolution in a global climate and hydrological model based on the Rhine and Mississippi basin, Hydrology and Earth System Science. More specific, this repository contains the following datasets: • Precipitation over Europe from E-OBS: E-OBS dataset version 12.0 at 0.25° from 1985 until 2015 (30 years). We acknowledge the E-OBS dataset from the EU-FP6 project ENSEMBLES () and the data providers in the ECA&D project (). Haylock, M.R., N. Hofstra, A.M.G. Klein Tank, E.J. Klok, P.D. Jones, M. New: A European daily high-resolution gridded dataset of surface temperature and precipitation. J. Geophys. Res (Atmospheres), 113, D20119, , 2008 • Precipitation over the USA from CPC: The Climate Prediciton Center (CPC) 0.25° Daily US Unified Gauge-Based precipitation dataset version 1.0 is used from 1985-2015 (30 years). Higgins, R.W., Shi, W., Yarosh, E., Joyce, R. Improved United States Precipitation Quality Control System and Analysis, ATLAS No. 7, NCEP/Climate Prediction Center, Camp Springs, USA, 40 pp., 2000. • Actual evaporation from GLEAM: Global Land Evaporation: the Amsterdam Methodology (GLEAM) dataset version 3.0a from 1985 until 2015 (30 years) Martens, B., Miralles, D.G., Lievens, H., van der Schalie, R., de Jeu, R.A.M., Fernández-Prieto, D., Beck, H.E., Dorigo, W.A., and Verhoest, N.E.C.: GLEAM v3: satellite-based land evaporation and root-zone soil moisture, Geoscientific Model Development, 10, 1903–1925, , 2017. Miralles, D.G., Holmes, T.R.H., de Jeu, R.A.M., Gash, J.H., Meesters, A.G.C.A., Dolman, A.J.: Global land-surface evaporation estimated from satellite-based observations, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 15, 453–469, , 2011. • Observed discharge at Lobith and Vicksburg from GRDC: Daily discharge data for the Rhine at Lobith and the Mississippi at Vicksburg are obtained from the Global Runoff Data Center (GRDC) from 1985 until 2015 (30 years). GRDC: GRDC in the Bundesanstalt fuer Gewaesserkunde, Tech. rep., Koblenz, Germany, available at: , last access: 12-03-2019, 2007. • Parameter fields for the two resolutions (0.5° and 0.05°) hydrological model W3RA and routing module wflow: Extra information on the model parameters is provided in the README file in the w3ra_parameters folder • Shapefiles Rhine and Mississippi basin The files in this folder called wribasin contain the shapefile for the Rhine and Mississippi basin which is used to determine the basin averages. The input data for the hydrological model and the output of the hydrological model are not stored in this repository. This data is available upon request to the author (imme.benedict@wur.nl or immebenedict@hotmail.com