Hydrologic implications of GRACE satellite data in the Colorado River Basin

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 9891-9903

  Scanlon, Bridget R ^a   Zhang, Zizhan ^a   Reedy, Robert C ^a   Pool, Donald R ^b   Save, Himanshu ^c   Long, Di ^d   Chen, Jianli ^c   Wolock, David M ^b   Conway, Brian D ^e   Winester, Daniel ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Arizona Dep of Water Resources   (United States)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado River Basin; droughts; GRACE satellites; sustainable water resources

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; DROUGHT; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GROUNDWATER; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVERS; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER LEVELS; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

COLORADO RIVER BASIN; GLOBAL WATER RESOURCES; GRACE SATELLITES; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; GROUND-BASED MONITORING; GROUNDWATER STORAGE; SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCES; WET AND DRY CYCLES;

WATER RESOURCES;

DATA INTERPRETATION; DROUGHT; GRACE; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RECONSTRUCTION; RESERVOIR; RIVER BASIN; SATELLITE DATA; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER RESOURCE; WATER STORAGE; WATER USE;

COLORADO RIVER [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84956815479     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR018090     Document Type: Article

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