Annual and seasonal water storage changes detected from GRACE data in the La Plata Basin

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 212-213, Issue , 2012, Pages 88-99

  Pereira, Ayelen ^a   Pacino, María Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Geodynamics; GRACE; La Plata Basin; Rainfall; Water storage

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; CONTINENTAL WATER STORAGE; EARTH'S GRAVITY FIELDS; EXTREME WEATHER; EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; GRACE; HYDROLOGICAL SIGNALS; LA PLATA BASIN; MASS CHANGE; MASS-TRANSPORT PROCESS; PROCESSING CENTER; RAINFALL DATA; RIVER BASINS; SATELLITE GRAVITY; SOUTH AMERICA; SPATIAL SCALE; TIME-PERIODS; TIME-VARIABLE GRAVITY; WATER MASS; WATER STORAGE; WATER STORAGE VARIATION;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEODYNAMICS; GRAVITATION; RAIN;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

GEODYNAMICS; GRACE; GRAVIMETRY; GRAVITY FIELD; RAINFALL; WATER STORAGE;

ARGENTINA; LA PLATA BASIN;

EID: 84868484512     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2012.09.005     Document Type: Article

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