Seasonal Water Storage Variations as Impacted by Water Abstractions: Comparing the Output of a Global Hydrological Model with GRACE and GPS Observations

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1311-1331

  Döll, Petra ^a   Fritsche, Mathias ^b   Eicker, Annette ^c   Müller Schmied, Hannes ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global hydrological model; GPS; GRACE; Water abstractions; Water storage

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; CLIMATE MODELS; DIGITAL STORAGE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; RUNOFF; SURFACE WATERS; TIME SERIES; WATER SUPPLY;

CONTINENTAL WATER STORAGE; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; GRACE; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; WATER ABSTRACTION; WATER STORAGE; WATER STORAGE VARIATION;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

EID: 84927122973     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: 15730956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-014-9282-2     Document Type: Article

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