Changes in land surface water dynamics since the 1990s and relation to population pressure

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Prigent, C ^a   Papa, F ^b   Aires, F ^c   Jimenez, C ^a   Rossow, W B ^d   Matthews, E ^e  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b LEGOS   (France)

^c Estellus ^*  (France)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; WATER SUPPLY; WETLANDS;

GLOBAL SCALE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAND SURFACE; OPEN WATER; POPULATION PRESSURE; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH ASIA; WATER DYNAMICS; WATER WITHDRAWAL;

FLOODS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAND SURFACE; MARSH; OPEN WATER; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION PRESSURE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WETLAND;

SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 84861314040     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051276     Document Type: Article

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