Surface freshwater storage and variability in the Amazon basin from multi-satellite observations, 1993-2007

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 11,951-11,965

  Papa, Fabrice ^a,b   Frappart, Frederic ^c   Güntner, Andreas ^d   Prigent, Catherine ^e   Aires, Filipe ^e,f   Getirana, Augusto C V ^g   Maurer, Raffael ^h  

^a LEGOS   (France)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^d GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^e OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^f Estellus ^*  (France)

^g NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^h Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Hydrology; Remote Sensing; Surface Water

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; DROUGHT; FLOODS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; HYDROLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SURFACE WATER RESOURCES; WATER;

ADVANCE SPACEBORNE THERMAL EMISSION AND REFLECTION RADIOMETERS; AMAZON; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; MULTI-SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEASONAL AND INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

SURFACE WATERS;

ASTER; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GRACE; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER BASIN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

AMAZON BASIN; AMAZON RIVER;

EID: 84889816262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD020500     Document Type: Article

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