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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-2366</article-id>
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<article-title>C-CWatM v1.0: A high-resolution water resources and river routing model enabling direct linkage to state-of-the-art Earth-system and land‑surface models</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Greve</surname>
<given-names>Peter</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9454-0125</ext-link>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Schmitt</surname>
<given-names>Amelie U.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3346-9748</ext-link>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Schreiber</surname>
<given-names>Sina Jasmin</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Clédat</surname>
<given-names>Augustin</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Burek</surname>
<given-names>Peter</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6390-8487</ext-link>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Hamburg, Germany</addr-line>
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<addr-line>Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/IPSL - Ecole Polytechnique/CNRS, Paris, France France</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Water Security Research Group, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria</addr-line>
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<day>13</day>
<month>05</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>37</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Peter Greve et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>River routing and human water management are often poorly represented in many Earth-system and land-surface models, not permitting consistent assessments of human-water-climate interactions. In this work, we introduce C-CWatM v1.0 (Climate-CWatM v1.0), a land-surface-driven version of the Community Water model (CWatM) that enables online and offline simulations of river routing, water resource availability, and management. The model operates on standard land-surface output and includes an OASIS3-MCT coupling interface, enabling efficient two-way coupling with Earth-system and land-surface models. In comparison to CWatM, all modules related to land-surface and snow processes have been removed to prevent conflicts with land-surface parameterisations implemented in the coupled models. C-CWatM also offers options for reducing-forcing requirements and simple on-the-fly bias correction using predefined quantile weights. We test C-CWatM in both online and offline settings and evaluate the model performance in offline mode using REMO output across a European domain. C-CWatM reproduces large-scale discharge patterns and hydrological gradients when using non-bias-corrected forcing data without calibration of model parameters. Calibration results in moderate improvements in model performance, while quantile-mapping-based bias correction of runoff significantly enhances model skill. A reduced-forcing version of the model enables rapid simulations based on available climate model output, as demonstrated using readily available EURO-CORDEX output. C-CWatM provides a novel and flexible hydrological and water resources modelling tool for representing river routing and water management in coupled modelling systems, enabling more integrated analyses of climate-water-human interactions.</p>
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