Assessing the potential global extent of SWOT river discharge observations

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 519, Issue PB, 2014, Pages 1516-1525

  Pavelsky, Tamlin M ^a   Durand, Michael T ^b   Andreadis, Konstantinos M ^c   Beighley, R Edward ^d   Paiva, Rodrigo C D ^e   Allen, George H ^a   Miller, Zachary F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Northeastern University   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Downstream hydraulic geometry; Global hydrology; Remote sensing; River discharge; SWOT

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL HYDROLOGY; HYDRAULIC GEOMETRY; RIVER DISCHARGE; SWOT;

REMOTE SENSING;

DATA SET; GAUGE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION; PROJECT DESIGN; RIVER DISCHARGE; RUNOFF; SENSOR; THRESHOLD; TOPOGRAPHY;

FRANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907979949     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.08.044     Document Type: Article

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