Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) detection of water storage changes in the Three Gorges Reservoir of China and comparison with in situ measurements

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Xianwei ^a,b   De Linage, Caroline ^b   Famiglietti, James ^b   Zender, Charles S ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL HYDROLOGY; GLOBAL SEA LEVEL RISE; GLOBAL SOLUTIONS; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; HARMONIC SOLUTION; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; LAND AREAS; MASS REDISTRIBUTION; MASS SHIFT; RESERVOIR LEAKAGE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THREE GORGES RESERVOIR; TIME-PERIODS; TIME-SCALES; TRUE AMPLITUDE; VOLUME CHANGE; WATER STORAGE; WATER VOLUMES;

EXPERIMENTS; GRAVITATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEA LEVEL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

ERROR ANALYSIS; GRACE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LEAKAGE; RECHARGE; RESERVOIR IMPOUNDMENT; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER LEVEL; WATER STORAGE;

CHINA; THREE GORGES RESERVOIR;

EID: 82955173794     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010534     Document Type: Article

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