Quantifying storage changes in regional Great Lakes watersheds using a coupled subsurface-land surface process model and GRACE, MODIS products

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 7359-7377

  Niu, Jie ^a,b   Shen, Chaopeng ^c   Li, Shu Guang ^a   Phanikumar, Mantha S ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Application of a process based watershed model to regional watersheds; Quantified water budgets and storage changes in two Great Lakes watersheds; Storage increased in both watersheds over a 10 year period (2002 2012)

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE MODELS; DIGITAL STORAGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GROUNDWATER; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LAKES; LAND USE; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; WATERSHEDS; ENERGY STORAGE; SOILS; WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; LAND USE AND LAND COVER; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; PROCESS-BASED; STORAGE CHANGES; WATER BUDGET COMPONENTS; GREAT LAKES; WATER BUDGET;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

GRACE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND COVER; LAND USE; MODIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; LAND SURFACE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL TYPE; WATER BUDGET; WATER STORAGE; WATERSHED;

CANADA; GRAND RIVER [ONTARIO]; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; MICHIGAN; ONTARIO [CANADA]; SAGINAW BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84915754481     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015589     Document Type: Article

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