Terrestrial water storage response to the 2012 drought estimated from GPS vertical position anomalies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 6145-6151

  Chew, Clara C ^a   Small, Eric E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; DROUGHT; GROUNDWATER; LOADING; SOIL MOISTURE;

DROUGHT INDICES; DROUGHT MONITORING; GPS DATA; NEAR-REAL TIME; SOLID EARTH; TERRESTRIAL WATER STORAGE; VERTICAL POSITIONS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

DATA SET; DROUGHT STRESS; GPS; GRACE; METEOROLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER STORAGE;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 84907943474     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061206     Document Type: Article

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