Water withdrawal estimation reported in Hanasaki et al. 2018 (HESS)

Data: Source-specific water withdrawal estimation

Reference: Hanasaki et al. 2018;
https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/22/789/2018/

Spatial domain: Global
Spatial resolution:0.5 degree
Period: 1984-2013
Temporal resolution: Yearly

Variable

• Water withdrawal by sector and source
• Unit: kg/s

Variable name convention

• Sup + [Sector ID] + [Source ID]
• Sup: Water withdrawal
• Sector ID
• Agr: for agricultural sector
• Ind: for industrial sector
• Dom: for domestic sector
• AID: for all sectors
• Source ID
  • R_: from rivers
  • C_: from aqueducts (canals)
  • M_: from local reservoirs (Medium-sized reservoir)
  • D_: from desalination
  • SN: from unspecified surface water
  • GR: from renewable groundwater
  • GN: from non-renewable groundwater

Files (netcdf)

• Format: NetCDF

File format (binary)

• Endianness: Big
• Format: 4byte real
• Order: from N90 to S90, from W180 to E180