GC31B-06Exploring the Role of Essential Water Variables (EWVs) in Monitoring Indicators for the Sustainable Development of the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus, UN-SDGs & Climate Change.Sushel Unninayar

Abstract

Water variables and parameters that address "user" defined critical requirements for one or more of the following (https://www.geoglows.org/pages/workinggroup3):• Observational "monitoring" of key elements of the global and regional/local water cycle • Observations required by diagnostic and/or land surface/hydrological prediction models that are used to generate products for the end-user communities, and • Observations and model-derived variables and parameters required by users of water data/information products as applied to various inter-disciplinary decision support systems and tools.Current List of Primary and Supplemental Essential Water Variables (EWVs)-Adapted/Updated from GEOGLOWS-WG3 and Huffman et al., 2021 following end-user feedback & review at international conferences (https://www.geoglows.org/pages/workinggroup3).