Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
NHESS
The global hydrological model WaterGAP (GMD/NHESS inter-journal SI)(GMD/NHESS inter-journal SI)
Special issues
Special issues
The global hydrological model WaterGAP (GMD/NHESS inter-journal SI)(GMD/NHESS inter-journal SI)
Editor(s): Petra Döll (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany), Hannes Müller Schmied (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany), Martina Flörke (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany), and Animesh Gain (Murdoch University, Australia) Special issue jointly organized between Geoscientific Model Development and Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

This special issue gathers already-published and future papers that describe and/or apply the global water resources and use model WaterGAP.

WaterGAP (www.watergap.de) is a global freshwater model that calculates human water use as well as water flows and storage on all continents (except Antarctica), taking into account the human influence on the natural freshwater system such as climate change, water abstractions, and dams. As one of the pioneers in the field of global hydrological modelling, it supports our understanding of the global freshwater system since 1996 for historical periods and the future. The model is continuously being improved to answer scientific questions driven by societal demands. WaterGAP is applied to assess water scarcity, droughts, and floods and to quantify the human impact on, for example, groundwater, wetlands, streamflow, and sea-level rise.

Review process: all papers of this special issue underwent the regular interactive peer-review process of Geoscientific Model Development handled by members of the GMD editorial board.

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20 Nov 2023
The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2.2e: description and evaluation of modifications and new features
Hannes Müller Schmied, Tim Trautmann, Sebastian Ackermann, Denise Cáceres, Martina Flörke, Helena Gerdener, Ellen Kynast, Thedini Asali Peiris, Leonie Schiebener, Maike Schumacher, and Petra Döll
Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2023-213,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2023-213, 2023
Preprint under review for GMD (discussion: final response, 2 comments)
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15 Jun 2023
Analyzing the informative value of alternative hazard indicators for monitoring drought hazard for human water supply and river ecosystems at the global scale
Claudia Herbert and Petra Döll
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 2111–2131, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-2111-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-2111-2023, 2023
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03 May 2021
Soil moisture and streamflow deficit anomaly index: an approach to quantify drought hazards by combining deficit and anomaly
Eklavyya Popat and Petra Döll
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 1337–1354, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1337-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1337-2021, 2021
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23 Feb 2021
The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2.2d: model description and evaluation
Hannes Müller Schmied, Denise Cáceres, Stephanie Eisner, Martina Flörke, Claudia Herbert, Christoph Niemann, Thedini Asali Peiris, Eklavyya Popat, Felix Theodor Portmann, Robert Reinecke, Maike Schumacher, Somayeh Shadkam, Camelia-Eliza Telteu, Tim Trautmann, and Petra Döll
Geosci. Model Dev., 14, 1037–1079, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-1037-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-1037-2021, 2021
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