Supplementary Materials for the manuscript “Continental heat storage: Contributions from ground, inland waters, and permafrost thawing” Francisco José Cuesta-Valero 1,2 , Hugo Beltrami 3,4 , Almudena García-García 1,2 , Gerhard Krinner 5 , Moritz Langer 6,7 , Andrew H. MacDougall 8 , Jan Nitzbon 6,9 , Jian Peng 1,2 , Karina von Schuckmann 10 , Sonia I. Seneviratne 11 , Noah Smith 12 , Wim Thiery 13 , Inne Vanderkelen 13 , Tonghua Wu 14 1 Department of Remote Sensing, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, 04318, Germany. 2 Remote Sensing Centre for Earth System Research, Leipzig University, 04103, Leipzig, Germany. 3 Climate & Atmospheric Sciences Institute and Department of Earth Sciences, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, B2G 2W5, Canada. 4 Département des sciences de la Terre et de l’atmosphère, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada. 5 CNRS senior scientist (Directeur de Recherche), LGGE Grenoble, France. 6 Permafrost Research Section, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany. 7 Geography Department, Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. 8 Climate & Environment Program, St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada B2G 2W5. 9 Paleoclimate Dynamics Section, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany. 10 Mercator Ocean International, Toulouse, 31400, France. 11 Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland. 12 Department of Mathematics, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom. 13 Department of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, 1050, Belgium. 14 Cryosphere Research Station on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of Eco–Environment and Resources (NIEER), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Lanzhou, 730000, China. Correspondence to: Francisco José Cuesta-Valero (francisco-jose.cuesta-valero@ufz.de) S1 Introduction This file contains supplementary figures accompanying the manuscript “Continental heat storage: Contributions from ground, inland waters, and permafrost thawing”. 1 5 10 15 20 25