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. 2015 Jan;196:341–349. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.10.022

Table 1.

Spatially explicit inputs to the GWAVA model.

Input data Resolution Source
Sub-grid elevation distributiona 30″ HydroSHEDS (Lehner et al., 2008), GTOPO (USGS, 1996)
Locations of irrigated crop types and the start and end of their growing season 5′ MIRCA2000 (Portmann et al., 2010)
Crop characteristics and growth stage durations for 47 irrigated crop types Monthly, 5′ Allen et al. (1998), Siebert and Döll (2010), MIRCA2000 (Portmann et al., 2010)
Hydrography n.a. (vector data) CCM2.1 (Voght et al., 2007)
Soil texture 5′ HWSD (FAO et al., 2009)
Land cover 5′ GLCC (USGS, 2001)
Climate parameters 10′, monthly CRU TS 1.2 (Mitchell et al., 2004)
Climate parameters 30′, monthly CRU TS 2.1 (Mitchell and Jones, 2005)
Lake, reservoir and wetland parameters 5′ GLWD (Lehner and Döll, 2004)
Fraction of water extracted from groundwater Country Aquastat (FAO), Eurostat (European Commission, 2010)
Urban, rural, and industrial water demand per capita Country Eurostat (European Commission, 2010)
Rural populationb 5′ FAO (Salvatore et al., 2005)
Total populationb 2.5′ GPW (Balk and Yetman, 2004)
Cattle, sheep and goat population 0.05° Wint and Robinson (2007)
% households connected to sewerageb Country Williams et al. (2012)
Sewage effluent locations and sizesb n.a. (point data) EEA (2012)
a

Used for calculating river depth during the simulation of ENP transport.

b

Used for the modeling of ENP loading from point sources.