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

Li, Xinya; Vernon, Chris R.; Hejazi, Mohamad I.; Link, Robert P.; Huang, Zhongwei; Liu, Lu; Feng, Leyang

doi:10.5334/jors.197

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

Journal Article · Fri Feb 09 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Journal of Open Research Software

DOI:https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.197· OSTI ID:1430416

^[1]; Vernon, Chris R. ^[1]; Hejazi, Mohamad I. ^[2]; Link, Robert P. ^[2]; Huang, Zhongwei ^[2]; Liu, Lu ^[3]; Feng, Leyang ^[2]

Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), College Park, MD (United States). Joint Global Change Research Inst.
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), College Park, MD (United States). Joint Global Change Research Inst.; Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)

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).

Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

OSTI ID:: 1430416

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-129638; KP1703030

Journal Information:: Journal of Open Research Software, Journal Name: Journal of Open Research Software Vol. 6; ISSN 2049-9647

Publisher:: Software Sustainability InstituteCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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