GRACE gravity satellite observations of terrestrial water storage changes for drought characterization in the arid land of northwestern China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1021-1047

  Cao, Yanping ^a,b   Nan, Zhuotong ^a   Cheng, Guodong ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Arid region; Drought; GRACE gravity satellite; Terrestrial water storage; TSDI

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARID REGIONS; DIGITAL STORAGE; GEODETIC SATELLITES; SATELLITES;

GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; QUANTITATIVE INVESTIGATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; TERRESTRIAL WATER STORAGE; TSDI;

DROUGHT;

EID: 84979996649     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70101021     Document Type: Article

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