Integration of GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) data with traditional data sets for a better understanding of the timedependent water partitioning in African watersheds

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 479-482

  Ahmed, Mohamed ^a   Sultan, Mohamed ^a   Wahr, John ^b   Yan, Eugene ^c   Milewski, Adam ^a   Sauck, William ^a   Becker, Richard ^d   Welton, Benjamin ^e  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^e Western Michigan University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL AFRICA; DATA SETS; DOWNSLOPE; EQUIVALENT WATER THICKNESS; GAUSSIANS; GRAVITY FIELD SOLUTION; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; HYDROLOGIC SYSTEMS; IN-PHASE; LOCAL RESPONSE; LOCAL SCALE; MASS VARIATIONS; NIGER; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SOURCE AREA; STANDARD DEVIATION; SUBBASINS; TIME-DEPENDENT; WATER PARTITIONING;

EXPERIMENTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LAKES; REMOTE SENSING; WATERSHEDS; WETLANDS;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

DATA SET; GIS; GRACE; GRAVITY FIELD; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATERSHED;

CONGO; NIGER [WEST AFRICA]; NILE BASIN;

EID: 79954588014     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31812.1     Document Type: Article

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