Spatial and temporal complexity of the Amazon flood measured from space

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Alsdorf, Doug ^a   Bates, Paul ^b   Melack, John ^c   Wilson, Matt ^d   Dunne, Thomas ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; CHANNEL FLOW; FLOW OF WATER; INTERFEROMETRY; MAPPING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHY;

FLOODPLAIN PROCESS; FLOW PATH; SPACEBORNE INTERFEROMETRY;

FLOODS;

BATHYMETRY; FLOOD WAVE; FLOODPLAIN; JERS-1; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER FLOW;

AMAZON RIVER; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34250771007     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029447     Document Type: Article

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