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Publication Date
9 February 2018

Tethys – A Python Package for Spatial and Temporal Downscaling of Global Water Withdrawals

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Downscaling of water withdrawals from regional/national to local scale is a fundamental step and also a common problem when integrating large scale economic and integrated assessment models with high-resolution detailed sectoral models. Tethys, an open-access software written in Python, is developed with statistical downscaling algorithms, to spatially and temporally downscale water withdrawal data to a finer scale. The spatial resolution will be downscaled from region/basin scale to grid (0.5 geographic degree) scale and the temporal resolution will be downscaled from year to month. Tethys is used to produce monthly global gridded water withdrawal products based on estimates from the Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM).

“Tethys – A Python Package For Spatial And Temporal Downscaling Of Global Water Withdrawals”. 2018. Journal Of Open Research Software 6: 9. doi:10.5334/jors.197.
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