Environmental Research Letters (Jan 2024)
Water circles—a tool to assess and communicate the water cycle
- Mikhail Smilovic,
- Peter Burek,
- Dor Fridman,
- Luca Guillaumot,
- Jens de Bruijn,
- Peter Greve,
- Yoshihide Wada,
- Ting Tang,
- Matthias Kronfuss,
- Sarah Hanus,
- Sylvia Tramberend,
- Taher Kahil
Affiliations
- Mikhail Smilovic
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- Water Security Research Group, Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) , Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
- Peter Burek
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- Water Security Research Group, Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) , Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
- Dor Fridman
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- Water Security Research Group, Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) , Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
- Luca Guillaumot
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- CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS , Toulouse, France
- Jens de Bruijn
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- Water Security Research Group, Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) , Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria; Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University , De Boelelaan 1087, 1081HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Peter Greve
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- Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon , Hamburg, Germany
- Yoshihide Wada
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- Water Security Research Group, Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) , Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria; Climate and Livability Initiative, Center for Desert Agriculture, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) , Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
- Ting Tang
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- Water Security Research Group, Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) , Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria; Climate and Livability Initiative, Center for Desert Agriculture, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) , Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
- Matthias Kronfuss
- Matthias Kronfuss Studio , Linke Wienzeile 142/13, 1060 Vienna, Austria
- Sarah Hanus
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- Department of Geography, University of Zurich , CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
- Sylvia Tramberend
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- Water Security Research Group, Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) , Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
- Taher Kahil
- ORCiD
- Water Security Research Group, Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) , Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad18de
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 19,
no. 2
p. 021003
Abstract
‘Water circles’ are presented as flexible water cycle diagrams aggregating the flows through a system for a specific region and time period, categorized by flow type and organized by magnitude. Water circles for an entire system and separate storage components can be interpreted as water cycle speedometers and can help compare and communicate different climate and human impacts on different regions, time periods, and storage components. Water circles can facilitate comparisons between hydrological models and other methods for deriving water balances.
Keywords
- water cycle
- hydrological cycle
- science education
- hydrological modelling
- science communication
- model development
