Estimating water budget of large basin with NewAge-JGrass

This paper has been out there for a year, as discussion paper in HESS. After a long review process, now it is accepted. Most of the issues and discussions are almost similar to the discussion paper. However, discussion and the methodology sections have been improved a lot in the final and accepted paper.  It is open access meaning it can be accessed for any one at this link.

Water Budget of the upper Blue Nile basin

If we, as a hydrologic science community,  are aims to contribute for understanding and managing  the water resource, it is important to provide space-time information for all the components of water cycle i.e precipitation, evapotranspiration, runoff, and storage together. Usually such estimation is persuaded at annual time scale for large basin using the budyko hypothesis. However,  this kind of estimation is not useful for operational purpose as hydrological information at daily and weekly scale is a key for agricultural application. Here, a paper submitted for HESSD, is our  effort to estimate  space-time distributed water budget for the Upper Blue Nile basin, an exemplary for data scarce and large scale problems.