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Disparities across global water models

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Functional relationships that capture the spatial co-variability of forcing and response variables provide a framework well-suited for global water model evaluation. Evaluating these relationships highlights large differences across models’ representations of the water cycle and the need for model improvement.

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Fig. 1: Functional relationship between model-simulated annual actual evapotranspiration (Ea, coloured lines) and annual precipitation (P) for different regions.

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Troy, T.J. Disparities across global water models. Nat Water 1, 1000–1001 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-023-00172-8

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