Groundwater depletion in the Middle East from GRACE with implications for transboundary water management in the Tigris-Euphrates-Western Iran region

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 904-914

  Voss, Katalyn A ^a,b   Famiglietti, James S ^b   Lo, Minhui ^b,c   De Linage, Caroline ^b   Rodell, Matthew ^d   Swenson, Sean C ^e  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; BUDGET CONTROL; DIGITAL STORAGE; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

FRESHWATER STORAGES; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT SATELLITES; GROUNDWATER DEPLETION; INTERNATIONAL WATERS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; REMOTE SENSING INFORMATION; TRANS-BOUNDARY RIVERS; TRANSBOUNDARY WATER;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

GRACE; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; INTERNATIONAL LAW; LAND SURFACE; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER BASIN; SATELLITE MISSION; WATER BUDGET; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER STORAGE; WATER USE;

EUPHRATES BASIN; MIDDLE EAST; TIGRIS BASIN;

EID: 84876534283     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20078     Document Type: Article

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