The 2009 exceptional Amazon flood and interannual terrestrial water storage change observed by GRACE

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Chen, J L ^a   Wilson, C R ^a,b   Tapley, B D ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMAZON BASIN; CLIMATE EVENT; DRY SEASONS; ENSO EVENTS; FLOOD SEASON; GRAVITY MEASUREMENT; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT SATELLITES; INTERANNUAL; PRECIPITATION DATA; SATELLITE GRAVITY; SATELLITE MISSION; SPATIAL EVOLUTION; TERRESTRIAL WATER STORAGE; WATER CONSUMPTION; WET SEASON;

DROUGHT; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DATA SET; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; FLOODING; GRACE; LA NINA; WATER RESOURCE; WATER STORAGE; WATER USE;

AMAZON BASIN;

NIA;

EID: 78650262667     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009383     Document Type: Article

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