Past terrestrial water storage (1980-2008) in the Amazon Basin reconstructed from GRACE and in situ river gauging data

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 533-546

  Becker, M ^a   Meyssignac, B ^a   Xavier, L ^a,b   Cazenave, A ^a   Alkama, R ^c   Decharme, B ^c  

^a CNES   (France)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMAZON BASIN; ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; CLIMATE FORCINGS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CONTINENTAL WATERS; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; IN-SITU; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; KEY ELEMENTS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RIVER BASINS; RIVER GAUGING; RIVER LEVELS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPACE GRAVIMETRY; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TERRESTRIAL WATER STORAGE;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GROUNDWATER; SOIL MOISTURE; WATERSHEDS;

RIVERS;

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GAUGE; GRACE; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RECONSTRUCTION; RIVER BASIN; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE WATER; WATER STORAGE;

AMAZON BASIN;

EID: 79951526877     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-15-533-2011     Document Type: Article

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