Abstract: common term in the continental and oceanic components of the global water cycle is freshwater discharge to the oceans. Many estimates of the annual average global discharge have been made over the past 100 yr with a ...

Abstract: Underestimation of precipitation in topographically complex regions plagues most gauge-based gridded precipitation datasets. Gauge locations are usually in or near population centers, which tend to lie at low elevations ...

Abstract: Droughts can be characterized by their severity, frequency and duration, and areal extent. Depth?area?duration analysis, widely used to characterize precipitation extremes, provides a basis for the evaluation of drought ...

Abstract: Northern Eurasia, the largest land-mass in the northern extratropics, accounts for ?20% of the global land area. However, little is known about how the biogeochemical cycles, energy and water cycles, and human activities ...