Subsurface Hydrology of the Lake Chad Basin from Convection Modelling and Observations

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 471-502

  Lopez, T ^a   Antoine, R ^b   Kerr, Y ^a   Darrozes, J ^c   Rabinowicz, M ^c   Ramillien, G ^d   Cazenave, A ^d,e   Genthon, P ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b CEREMA   (France)

^c Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Convection; GRACE; Infrared data; Lake Chad; Piezometric anomalies; Vertical permeability

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; DOMES; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; HEAT CONVECTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; INFRARED IMAGING;

GRACE; INFRARED DATA; LAKE CHAD; PIEZOMETRIC ANOMALIES; VERTICAL PERMEABILITIES;

LAKES;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRACE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; METEOSAT; PERMEABILITY; PIEZOMETER; WATER MASS;

LAKE CHAD;

EID: 84961211167     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: 15730956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-016-9363-5     Document Type: Review

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