Articles | Volume 22, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-22-433-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-22-433-2015
Research article
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30 Jul 2015
Research article |  | 30 Jul 2015

Global terrestrial water storage connectivity revealed using complex climate network analyses

A. Y. Sun, J. Chen, and J. Donges

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Short summary
Terrestrial water storage (TWS) plays a key role in global water and energy cycles. This work applies complex climate networks to analyzing spatial patterns in TWS. A comparative analysis is conducted using a remotely sensed (GRACE) and a model-generated TWS data set. Our results reveal hotspots of TWS anomalies around the global land surfaces. Prospects are offered on using network connectivity as constraints to further improve current global land surface models.