| Title: | CHASE-PL—Future hydrology data set: Projections of water balance and streamflow for the Vistula and Odra Basins, Poland |
| Authors: | Piniewski, M., M. Szcześniak and I. Kardel |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Journal: | Data |
| Volume (Issue): | 2(2) |
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| Article ID: | 14 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/data2020014 |
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| Model: | SWAT |
| Broad Application Category: | data or component development |
| Primary Application Category: | climate change |
| Secondary Application Category: | hydrologic assessment |
| Watershed Description: | Odra and Vistala Rivers, which together drain the majority of Poland and small portions on neighboring countries. |
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| Abstract: | There is considerable concern that the water resources of Central and Eastern Europe
region can be adversely affected by climate change. Projections of future water balance and
streamflow conditions can be obtained by forcing hydrological models with the output from climate
models. In this study, we employed the SWAT hydrological model driven with an ensemble of nine
bias-corrected EURO-CORDEX climate simulations to generate future hydrological projections for the
Vistula and Odra basins in two future horizons (2024–2050 and 2074–2100) under two Representative
Concentration Pathways (RCPs). The data set consists of three parts: (1) model inputs; (2) raw model
outputs; (3) aggregated model outputs. The first one allows the users to reproduce the outputs or to
create the new ones. The second one contains the simulated time series of 10 variables simulated by
SWAT: precipitation, snow melt, potential evapotranspiration, actual evapotranspiration, soil water
content, percolation, surface runoff, baseflow, water yield and streamflow. The third one consists of
the multi-model ensemble statistics of the relative changes in mean seasonal and annual variables
developed in a GIS format. The data set should be of interest of climate impact scientists, water
managers and water-sector policy makers. In any case, it should be noted that projections included in
this data set are associated with high uncertainties explained in this data descriptor paper |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | SWAT; climate change; flow projections; water balance; Vistula basin; Oder basin;
hydrological modelling |