Assessing surface water consumption using remotely-sensed groundwater, evapotranspiration, and precipitation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Anderson, Ray G ^a,b   Lo, Min Hui ^a,c   Famiglietti, James S ^a,b,d  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOOD SUPPLY; GROUNDWATER; SURFACE WATERS;

ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS; CALIFORNIA; EXPORT DATA; FOOD SECURITY; GROUNDWATER DEPLETION; HYDROLOGIC DATA; IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE; PUBLIC DATA; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE PRECIPITATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME-SCALES; WATER CONSUMPTION; WATER RIGHTS; WATER YEAR;

WATER SUPPLY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOOD SECURITY; GRAVIMETRY; GROUNDWATER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECISION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STREAMFLOW; SURFACE WATER; WATER USE;

CALIFORNIA; CENTRAL VALLEY [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865478027     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052400     Document Type: Article

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